Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch log corruption after update

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 21:21 +0200, Harald Meland wrote:
>
> > [Radim Kolar]
> >
> >
> > > % tla register-archive http://people.tecnik93.com/~radim/arch/repo-2004/
> > > % tla --version
> > > cd /tmp
> > > tla get freebsdutils--main--15--patch-3 portindex
> > > cd portindex
> > > tla update
> > > tla changes
> > > file Mb 
> > > {arch}/freebsdutils/freebsdutils--main/freebsdutils--main--15/address@hidden
> > > repo-2004/patch-log/version-0
> > > gets corrupted. It has random binary junk inside.
> >
> > Seems to work fine for me:
> >
> >  $ md5sum 
> > \{arch\}/freebsdutils/freebsdutils--main/freebsdutils--main--15/address@hidden/patch-log/version-0
> >  36420b6003ca6215618e6304b2c0d953  
> > {arch}/freebsdutils/freebsdutils--main/freebsdutils--main--15/address@hidden/patch-log/version-0
> >
> >
> > > I can reproduce it any time. FreeBSD 5.3b3.
> >
> > RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 Workstation.
>
>
> Tested here too. "tla changes" finds no changes as expected. Same md5
> sum as Harald.
>
> I would suspect an user error. Did you actually perform the test exactly
> as you described? If yes, can you double check?
It sounds a little like the problems we had a little while ago with log 
files, which depended on I/O timing.  It'd be useful to know:

Does it produce the same random binary junk every time?

Aaron