On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 01:53 -0800, Howard Chu wrote: > An essential design choice. This stuff relies on reads and writes of the > job_fd being atomic and the writes never blocking. POSIX guarantees a 4K > buffer for pipes. Perhaps the code should check the resource limit and > complain if the -j argument exceeds the resource limit: "Error: why > don't you just use '-j' ??"
Yes, that's a good idea. I will add some error checking to the code that initially seeds the pipe with tokens. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make