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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:20:28 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To:        FreeBSD STABLE Mailing List <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   create dir but install right afterwards fails.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006231005550.570-100000@localhost>

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[Please CC, I am not on -stable]

The following occurs frequently on one of my machines running 4.0-STABLE
of some weeks ago. A problem in softupdates is the only explanation I
can come up with.

mkdir -p /some/dir/qstream
install -c -p -m 0644 qstream.cpp /some/dir/qstream/qstream.cpp
install: mkstemp: /some/dir/INS@5648 for /some/dir/qstream.cpp: No such file or directory

Now this works fine on 5.0-CURRENT, Linux, Win2000 and Win98, but on a
slowish (Pentium II (265.91-MHz 686-class CPU)) this happens almost
every time I run the build (of about a 1000 files. It happens always
with the samples, but in different places.

Looking at the cvs logs for the softupdates related files I see that
stable is quite a few revisions behind. Any chance that the problem has
been solved somewhere between 1.57 and 1.69? I had a quick look and saw
that there were some bugfixes that might relate to this problem.
Unfortunately I don't have the time to try it out at the moent.

I will switch off softupdates and see whether that helps, but I am
pretty sure it will, as directory updates are slower and there is a good
chance that the glitch will not show up if it is not softupdates
related.

Let me know if you need access to the machine to try things out.

Cheers,

Nick

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n_hibma@freebsd.org                                          USB project
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