From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 29 7:45:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354A737B69C for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA31601; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:45:34 +1100 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 02:45:21 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: config(8) broken In-Reply-To: <200101291527.f0TFRK452905@mobile.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > Config now removes almost all headers: > > ... > > This is starting from compile directory populated by a previous version > > of config. Starting from scratch, config seems to work for the first > > run. The second run complains about all headers, deletes them all, and > > doesn't create any. The third run seems to work... > > What are the chances that you did this on a mount -o noatime file system? Very high :-). I'm surprised the bug doesn't affect fast machines, since config doesn't seem to sleep for >= 1 second to ensure that the atimes advance with the standard mount options. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message