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Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching |
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Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:57:03 +0300 |
> From: Kyle Rose <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:51:02 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It works as you'd expect for me even on MS-Windows, as it did for Paul
> on GNU/Linux, so I'm curious what kind of filesystem do you have
> there. (I think this issue has much more to do with the type of
> filesystem than with the OS.)
>
> The code paths are entirely different on Linux and Windows, and so I'd expect
> a behavior difference there.
> Red herring.
My point was that this problem's root cause is not in some high-level
algorithmic or implementation issue of Make, where all the platforms
work the same. The root cause is in low-level interaction with the
filesystem. Not a red herring at all.
Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching, Paul Smith, 2016/10/06