From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap not regenerating some *loaddefs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <05iqw82bux.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4kmylieydz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <3hhcbpdyr5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <2x3an73lso.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213997184 23688 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 21:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 20 23:27:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9o8S-0005DT-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9o7d-00035w-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9o7Y-00035h-NA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K9o7X-00034h-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50131 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K9o7X-00034e-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:52731) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9o7M-0006E8-OA; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvQEAEm9W0jO+KWv/2dsb2JhbACBW644 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,681,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="23039117" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 20 Jun 2008 17:25:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.165.175]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ABU07000; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8E5307F05; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <2x3an73lso.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:15:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99558 Archived-At: > loaddefs and friends. In a parallel make, loaddefs etc could be > changed while custom-deps/finder-data were trying to read them. (I BTW, why is that a problem? Since those files contain nothing useful w.r.t the function that scans them, I'd expect that whichever intermediate state they happen to see would still result in the same nothingness. Or was it a problem of locking? Stefan