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: 11/19/2007 11:52:02

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:59:28PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It always doesn't.

OK, fair enough...

make file3; sleep 5; touch file2; sleep 5; touch file1; sleep 5; touch file0; make file3

:-)

Patrick