netbsd-help: Re: Very strange behaviour of LFS and TMPFS

Subject: Re: Very strange behaviour of LFS and TMPFS
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/18/2007 15:29:35

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 10:05:35PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 08:30:25PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > ...
>  >>      0 trtr>touch file0 
>  >>      0 trtr>make file3  
> > ...
>  >> After toching file0, file3 is rebuilt NOT ALWAYS. Why?
> 
> > How long do you wait between the "touch" and the "make"?
> You mix message from testing LFS/TMPFS and "after touching..." message
> that concerns EXT2FS only.

Actually, I mixed up touch and make... Does

make file3; sleep 5; touch file0; make file3

always work?

Cheers,

Patrick