Aborting a build

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sat Nov 26 15:45:03 EST 2005


On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:39:20PM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> > What could be the best way to abort a build?
> >
> > ^C-ing it at the wrong time has caused me my ports directory more
> > than once now and ^Z and kill -9 %1 leaves a lock file...
> ctrl-C should work just fine.  When I rebuilt the handling of the  
> various nfs/nullfs mounts in HEAD, I did run across a number of cases  
> where filesystems would be left mounted, with potentially disastrous  
> results when various rm -rf's did their job.

Yes, it's with nullfs when this happens. Terrible annoying when
your ports/NEW gets wiped ;-)

Edwin
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