Re: Bogus file content on copies

[Mark . Burgess]

I have not seen this for many years: Might be something to do with
threading libraries. PLease try to reproduce this running it in
a debugger. Only a stack error could cause something like this.

M

On 16 Jul, Ferguson, Steve wrote:
> Now that I'm working with a sufficiently large number of machines in
> cfengine, I'm noticing some occasional odd failures.  The one I'm seeing
> most frequently is bogus file content when a file is copied.  Here's an
> example:
> 
> root@myhost:inputs# more cfservd.conf
> t 2048BAD: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name?
> 
> What causes this to happen and how can I prevent it?  If there's a failure
> condition, I'd expect the previous file not to get replaced, but in this
> case the old file is getting replaced with content like that shown above.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
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> Steve Ferguson
> gedas USA, Inc.
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> 
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