Re: exception to Paul's Second Rule?

[Noel Yap]

Noel Yap wrote:
> Hmmm, at first I thought that gmake should prevent the race condition due to 
> the dependency on %/../... since that should stat to the same file (but not 
> if the dependency is on %.mkdir), but now I'm thinking there may still be 
> room for a race condition.

FYI, my tests (on IRIX, Linux, and Solaris) indicate that %/../... does wind up 
stat'ing to the same file, but this behaviour may be different on other 
systems.  If it is, the pattern could be changed to something like .%/../... 
which, although messier
with the extra directories, should stat to the same file.

Noel