Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:47:17 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: parallel/simultaneous portinstall ? Message-ID: <20752.14965.157944.96485@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <69362.1360015552@tristatelogic.com> References: <69362.1360015552@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette writes: > My question is just this: Is it possible that Something Bad might > happen if, in one terminal session, the root user does > "portinstall A" and if, which that instance of portinstall is > still running, he then immediately switches to his other terminal > session and then does "portinstall B" ? It's possible; I will leave the details as an exercise for the reader. On the other hand: the worst that happens is that one loses the time invested (so far) in both builds. (Well, if you discount tail cases like running out of disk space.) Robert Huff
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