On Thu, 4 May 2006, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > BUILD alone means that the sequence > > gnatchop x > ls * > tmp > main=`tail -1 tmp` > echo "BUILD $main" > > got an empty tmp file. > > I see that from time to time, more on SMP/dual core machines, if you add > sync or sleep it goes away but the run is slower. I've always assumed > it's some kind of process/kernel/fs race condition (I don't see > anything wrong in gnatchop code).
Yes, this happens repeatedly on a 4-way HT-Xeon machine. Maybe just skipping the test completely if $main is empty would at least avoid the spurious FAILs... Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell / SUSE Labs
