I think that part of the issue with volatile is that it can beused for at least three different things:

1. stuff that can change behind the compiler's back (eg flags set ina signal handler), where mostly you need the compiler to not cachevalues loaded from volatile variables.
2. hardware registers, where reads and writes have side effects, soyou need the compiler to do all loads, even apparently pointlessones (as John Mashey and MIPS found out in the early ages ofoptimizing compilers being used on

For some reason, rpm in Fedora Core 6 (and I believe Fedora Core 5 too)has become overly twitchy about replacing configuration files; a lot ofthe time it will write .rpmnew files instead of just replacing the oldversion of the file even if the old file is unchanged and the new andthe old file are completely identical.

While I think this is multiarch stuff in action, I still have toclean it up every so often. I use a little scriptlet for this,usually typed at the command

This week, we:

• got 12,487 messages from 217 different IP addresses.
• handled 16,802 sessions from 997 different IP addresses.
• received 224,173 connections from at least 71,302 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 23 connections being checked at once.

The university came back from vacation this past Thursday, andof course the spammers never went on much of one to start with.I suspect that volume