p_manage_02: "gsort: ... sort0842200290: Do not specify an existing file."

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 16.02

Description:
p_manage_02 gets these errors:

start sort /exlibris4/aleph/u16_4/abc01/scratch/manage_02_1_7
gsort: /exlibris4/aleph/a16_4/tmp/sort0842200290: Do not specify an existing file.
end sort /exlibris4/aleph/u16_4/abc01/scratch/manage_02_1_7
Thu Jul 27 17:13:36 PDT 2006

FAILURE Thu Jul 27 17:13:37 PDT 2006 ==================
step 1
Cycle: 7

Sort Failure\n-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph16 aleph16 149259808 Jul 27 17:13 /exlibris
4/aleph/u16_4/abc01/scratch/manage_02_1_7\n-rw-rw-r-- 1 aleph16 aleph16

A rerun got the same errors (but in a different cycle).

Resolution:
Implementing gsort version 5.0 (replacing gsort 2.0) corrected the problem. (The code goes to great lengths to avoid duplicate file names.)

Note: We find that this newer version of gsort is also faster.