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2001 May 04
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File cacheing problem?
...ew small changes (so that 
the size of the file changes by a few dozen bytes or less), and then 
recompile, Linux gets a corrupt version of the file. Suppose I've 
increased the file length by 20 bytes. I will get the *old* version of the 
file, but then padded out to the correct length with 20 nullchars at the 
end.
When this happens, I've found the following seems to force Linux to 
get a correct copy: delete a big chunk of the file, save it (from 
Win98), reread it from Linux, put the big chunk back, and then reread 
it again.
I used a network sniffer to monitor the packets. What I found...