On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:56:05PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Glen Barber wrote:
> 
> >Log:
> > MFC r268376 (imp):
> >
> >   rm -rf can fail sometimes with an error from fts_read. Make it
> >   honor fflag to ignore fts_read errors, but stop deleting from
> >   that directory because no further progress can be made.
> 
> I asked for this to be backed out in -current.  It is not suitable for MFC.
> 

It fixes an immediate issue that prevents high-concurrent make(1) jobs
from stomping over each other.

If there is a more suitable solution, it needs to be introduced in head/
first, pending MFC for 10.1-RELEASE.

In the meantime, we lack any alternate fix, and this resolves the
immediate issue at hand.

> See old mail for more details.
> 

I saw the original email.  I do not see a proposed patch.

Glen

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