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Date:      Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:25:35 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: broken porter's handbook 
Message-ID:  <20010415072535.7A7273E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010414225146.A5369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on "Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:51:46 %2B0100"

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Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:58:28PM -0400, Jim Mock wrote:
> > This has happened with /handbook/ at least twice now too, and each time
> > it's been pointed out I've built a copy locally and don't have the
> > messed up index.  Nik, is there anything in particular that causes this
> > to happen?
> 
> I've never been able to duplicate this locally, or on any other machines
> I build the docs on.  Perhaps it's a malloc (or equivalent) failing when
> the docs build on freefall, because freefall does tend to get hammered
> periodically.

Does the web build on freefall use the -j option to make(1) by any
chance?  I looked at the broken file when I first got billf's e-mail,
and it looked to me like two processes were trying to write to the
file simulatiously.  I tried using -j locally, but everything seemed
fine.  However, -j combined with heavy load (which I didn't have) just
might explain this phenomenon.

					Dima Dorfman
					dima@unixfreak.org

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