Re: Simpler example of pathological behavior of directory caching

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kyle Rose <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:51:02 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>  It works as you'd expect for me even on MS-Windows, as it did for Paul
>  on GNU/Linux, so I'm curious what kind of filesystem do you have
>  there. (I think this issue has much more to do with the type of
>  filesystem than with the OS.)
> 
> The code paths are entirely different on Linux and Windows, and so I'd expect 
> a behavior difference there.
> Red herring.

My point was that this problem's root cause is not in some high-level
algorithmic or implementation issue of Make, where all the platforms
work the same.  The root cause is in low-level interaction with the
filesystem.  Not a red herring at all.