> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:39:56 -0400 > From: David Boyce <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > But this new option uses up 2 additional files per job, doesn't it? > > One or two, as discussed elsewhere in this thread. > > > Each sub-Make inherits all the file descriptors of all its parents, > > grandparents, etc. If a sub-Make was launched when 4 other jobs were > > running in parallel, the sub-Make will inherit 8 file descriptors that > > it won't use. The deeper the recursion, the more inherited > > descriptors. > > You have a good point. I should probably turn on FD_CLOEXEC for these.
I agree. What about the other issue: with the fact that output from a recipe is only shown when the entire recipe is done. I think this is a serious drawback, at least in some use cases. Can anything be done about that? _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
