svn commit: r227769 - head

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 20 19:16:21 UTC 2011


On Sun Nov 20 11, Glen Barber wrote:
> Author: gjb (doc committer)
> Date: Sun Nov 20 19:05:32 2011
> New Revision: 227769
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/227769
> 
> Log:
>   Add a note to src/Makefile that explains that 'rm' runs twice because the
>   second invocation only needs to operate on files with the immutable flag

thanks for taking care of this one. :)

are we sure we're only dealing with the immutable flag? since chflags is being
invoked as 'chflags -R 0' and not 'chflags -R noschg', wouldn't it be better to
refer to "file flags" in general and not only to the "immutable flag"?

cheers.
alex

>   set.
>   
>   Submitted by:		arundel (via private email) (original version)
>   Discussed on:		-toolchain@
>   MFC after:		3 days
> 
> Modified:
>   head/Makefile
> 
> Modified: head/Makefile
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/Makefile	Sun Nov 20 18:01:45 2011	(r227768)
> +++ head/Makefile	Sun Nov 20 19:05:32 2011	(r227769)
> @@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ buildworld: upgrade_checks
>  # files with chflags set, so this unsets them and tries the 'rm' a
>  # second time.  There are situations where this target will be cleaning
>  # some directories via more than one method, but that duplication is
> -# needed to correctly handle all the possible situations.
> +# needed to correctly handle all the possible situations.  Removing all
> +# files without the immutable flag set in the first 'rm' instance saves
> +# time, because 'chflags' will need to operate on fewer files (with the
> +# immutable flag set) afterwards.
>  #
>  BW_CANONICALOBJDIR:=${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}
>  cleanworld:


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