On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:31 AM Edward Welbourne <edward.welbou...@qt.io> wrote:
> Rather than removing the jobserver-auth data, you could amend the > MAKEFLAGS to includ jobserver-auth data with plainly invalid fds, i like jobserver-auth data with plainly invalid fds, because it lets older binaries fail on parsing jobserver-auth and print some (hopefully useful) error message. E.g. make itself would print "internal error: invalid --jobserver-auth string" > e.g. -1, as the two fds The program could read this -1 to (for example) uint16_t and interpret as 65535 and fail to notice the parent is not giving any fd. i'd rather provide no fd at all. E.g. --jobserver-auth= regards, Dmitry > > Eddy. >
