[OT] Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sat Nov 21 19:48:00 GMT 2009


mike marchywka wrote:

> Eh, this was supposed to be one non-controversial if tangential observation
> that did happen to point to a likely issue relevant to OP and who
> knows who starts out by reading a windoze env variable. I don't really
> want to discuss this further, I didn't think it would get this
> involved, you are probably right but FWIW.  I'd imagine they are
> supposed to be safe and a problem like this would have probably shown
> up by now but  I'm actually not all that sure that concurrent registry
> updates would be tested all that much-
> when is the last time you openned two registry editors while 5
> installs were running? ( rhetorical question LOL ).

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  Say, CGF was right.  This is a whole lot more fun!

    cheers,
      DaveK



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