[gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Ciaran McCreesh posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:27 +0000 as excerpted:

> Examples will merely be
> dismissed as one-off cases that can be worked around, or as relying upon
> a string of coincidences that will "obviously" never really happen,
> right up until they do, at which point they'll be dismissed with a
> WORKSFORME. What you have is a proof that it's broken, which is far
> better than an example.

Actually, that "dismissed with WORKSFORME" strikes a chord, here.  There 
was a very strange parallel make bug that I filed that was closed with 
that.  I'd have really liked to see someone with some skill tackle it, as 
that was the only one I've ever seen that had striped fail and working 
zones, and I've have loved to see some logic as to why...  (If -j10 
failed, -j3 and -j15 might succeed, -l24 fail again, and -j33 succeed 
again...)  Unfortunately, flameeyes, the only one I know who really gets 
into such things, was fresh out of the hospital at the time, and I think 
it was beyond the maintainer's abilities, so WORKSFORME was about the 
best that could be done.  I've long since changed and changed again my 
makeopts, and don't remember the pkg now, tho I could probably find it in 
my old bug mail if I needed to.

So I gotta admit you have a point, with that one.

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