From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 09:17:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3D516A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:17:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from blake.polstra.com (blake.polstra.com [64.81.189.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E9343D1F for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:17:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (dsl081-189-067.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.189.67]) by blake.polstra.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0NHHKIq024566; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:17:20 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra To: Ian Freislich X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500157, version=0.14.5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openssh no longer compiles (as part of make world) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:17:23 -0000 On 23-Jan-2004 Ian Freislich wrote: > I'm sorry that I didn't keep the ,v file that was corrupted. Don't worry. Hardly anybody does. > I'm > not sure that the OS buffers explain this because the machine had > been rebooted several times during the period that cvsup had not > refetched the corrupted file. Once the file has been written out to disk, the OS buffers aren't a factor any more. At that point, the data is corrupted on disk. But the metadata indicates that the file is OK. If the metadata says the file is up-to-date then CVSup won't update it. It would be waaaay too time-consuming to scan each entire file on every update run, so that is skipped if the metadata indicates the file is up-to-date. All file update packages operate that way. John