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On Friday, 23.06.2006 at 12:08 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> Something one of our staff noticed is that 'strange things' can happen
> if one edits a running DO file. For example:
>
> 1. Start a Stata job with "do somefile.do";
>
> 2. While the job is still running, edit somefile.do in an editor, say,
> by adding some additional commands to the end of it;
>
> 3. See the Stata job *execute those additional commands*, rather than
> executing the contents of the DO file as it was when the job started!
>
> This behaviour happens on both Stata versions we have here: Stata 8
> for Windows and Stata 9 for Linux.
>
> I used 'strace' to see what Stata was actually doing. It appears that
> Stata reads the DO file in 512-byte blocks and only reads the next
> block when it needs to (and "when it needs to" can be minutes, hours
> or even days later). Each new block read involves reading the file in
> its current state, which means that any editing of the DO file while
> the job is running can cause problems with the running job.
>
> The workaround is simple of course, one just avoids editing DO files
> which relate to running jobs.
>
> This behaviour of Stata seems strange: why doesn't it read the whole
> DO file at the start (which will only happen if the whole DO file is
> <512 bytes in size)?
>
> Any other comments?
Just thought I'd 'bump' this message again: I take it no-one else has
seen this behaviour, or at least no-one has seen it who is *worried*
about it?
Dave.
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Cancer Research UK / Oxford University
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