From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261486AbUCAXgJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:36:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261489AbUCAXgJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:36:09 -0500 Received: from host213-160-108-25.dsl.vispa.com ([213.160.108.25]:63883 "HELO cenedra.office") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261486AbUCAXgD (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:36:03 -0500 From: Andrew Walrond To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: linux-2.4.25 intermittent (parallel) build failure Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:36:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403012336.00411.andrew@walrond.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The failure seems occur when doing mv script.h sim710_d.h in drivers/scsi. It's not actually a failure, but mv asking if it should overwrite a mode 444 file. On the occasions that it suceeds, the file seems to have been given 644 permissions. I'm not entirely sure what is going on here, or why it is an intermittent failure. But perhaps the mv's should have a -f to prevent the question? Perhaps mv is at fault. The documentation says "If a destination file exists but is normally unwritable, standard input is a terminal, and the `-f' or `--force' option is not given, `mv' prompts the user for whether to replace the file. (You might own the file, or have write permission on its directory.) If the response does not begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped." I'm not sure why mv would think stdin is a terminal, since it's called by make. Anyhow, Perhaps someone cleverer than I can work it out. Or tell me why I'm being stupid :) Andrew Walrond