[perl #121600] atomic replacement in lib/ during build

On Tue Apr 08 05:23:04 2014, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from zefram@fysh.org,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.2.
> 
> 
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> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> During build, we put lib/ at the end of @INC, to avoid parallel builds
> seeing incomplete versions of Perl modules, as modules get installed
> there non-atomically.  To make parallel builds work more cleanly, we
> should arrange for installations of modules into lib/ to be atomic, by
> means of non-atomically writing a file under a modified name and then
> atomically renaming the complete file to its permanent name.  I
> believe
> this is possible on all platforms.  If we do this, it will be safe to
> put
> lib/ first thing in @INC, gaining a small speedup because most modules
> are in fact found there.
> 

This Apri 2014 motion for a revision in a procedure has not yet received a second.

Would anyone want to speak on its behalf?  Or against it?

Thank you very much.

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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• [perl #121600] atomic replacement in lib/ during build by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #121600] atomic replacement in lib/ during build by Karl Williamson
• [perl #121600] atomic replacement in lib/ during build by James E Keenan via RT