From:	Peter Gerwinski <peter AT gerwinski DOT de>
Message-Id:	<199804051244.OAA11039@esmeralda.gerwinski.de>
Subject:	Re: I/O problems
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980405154916.5976T-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Apr 5, 98 03:49:34 pm"
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:44:26 +0200 (MEST)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
MIME-Version:	1.0

According to Eli Zaretskii:
> 
> It is very hard to say something meaningful about these problems,
> since they involve large programs and happen only ``sometimes''.

Exactly. :-(

> One possibility is that these problems are somehow due to conflicts
> between names of temporary files used by the compiler driver.  The
> current versions of library functions which create temporary files
> aren't 100% safe when several programs run concurrently.  Perhaps you
> run other instances of the compiler or other DJGPP programs which use
> temporary files at the same time?

Exactly. :-)  This might be the solution!  I always get complaints
about `c:/temp/ccaaaaaa.s' but there are many instances of `gpc1'
and `gas' working on different files at that time.  I will investigate
that.

Thanks a lot,

    Peter
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