RE: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

, perhaps explaining why this has gone forever without being tracked down before, but I can think of one place. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:psm...@gnu.org] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 05:07 To: Martin Dorey; Kyle Rose; bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: Simpler example of patholo

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 00:10 +, Martin Dorey wrote: > ... then I failed to find any source that invalidates that cache, be > it the whole cache, just one directory or one entry in that directory. I'd have to reread that code to be sure but I don't think that's how it works.  I think that what's

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

> From: Kyle Rose > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:51:02 -0700 > Cc: psm...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii 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 ha

RE: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

() calls after the "target" files have been created. There's enough junk that glibc has to go back to the kernel, not just to its getdents results. -Original Message----- From: Bug-make [mailto:bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Paul Smith Sent: Thur

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 10:26 -0700, Kyle Rose wrote: > This is not a weird or contrived use case: this is wildcard not > finding targets in a recipe executed after they've been built as > explicit prerequisites. I discovered the difference.  If you put the makefile in a different directory, like th

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Martin Dorey wrote: > I can reproduce it too: > > > > martind@swiftboat:~/playpen/kyle-rose$ rm -f target*; > ~/download/make-git/make > > touch target1 > > touch target2 > > touch target3 > > touch target4 > > touch target5 > > touch target6 > > touch target7 > >

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii 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.) > T

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > 4.2.1 definitely broken, at least on my system. > > It works on my system. I've tried it multiple times. I'm using Ubuntu > GNOME 16.04.1, with GNU libc 2.23, on an ext4 filesystem. > Broken here on on Debian using the Linux kernel with gl

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 11:47 -0700, Kyle Rose wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > > You should include the version of GNU make that you're using; my > > version works as expected: > > > > $ make --version > > GNU Make 4.2.1 > > Funny you should mention that: > > $ make

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

> From: Kyle Rose > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 11:47:02 -0700 > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > $ make --version > GNU Make 4.2.1 > Built for i686-pc-linux-gnu > Copyright (C) 1988-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > This is fr

RE: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

ot when it's parsed. From: Bug-make [mailto:bug-make-bounces+martin.dorey=hds@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Rose Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 11:47 To: psm...@gnu.org Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Subject: Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM,

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > You should include the version of GNU make that you're using; my > version works as expected: > > $ make --version > GNU Make 4.2.1 > Funny you should mention that: $ make --version GNU Make 4.2.1 Built for i686-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 198

Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 10:26 -0700, Kyle Rose wrote: > all: $(addprefix target,1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) >     @echo glob: $(wildcard target*) > > target%: >     touch $@ > > To wit: > > $ make > touch target1 > touch target2 > touch target3 > touch target4 > touch target5 > touch target6 > touch tar