> The goal is that the user can easily find the stdou and stderr information
> while the semantic patch is running.

It matters when the tool “spatch” tries to apply its own parallelisation 
strategy.


> This is useful for long running semantic patches to see
> if things are going well or not.

Yes, of course.


> I decided on creating a directory that contains the name of the semantic
> patch, then the date, then the pid.

I imagine that time stamps and process identifiers can become fragile.


> It should be easy for the user to see which is the most recent,
> in the case that previous instances are remaining.

This is usually fine.


> The goal is to avoid getting a mysterious error from make coccicheck,
> not to meet the needs of advanced users.

* How advanced are they if they pass the parameter “CHECK=scripts/coccicheck”?

* The Linux make script will be improved so that extra parallelisation
  will be usually avoided by the Coccinelle software.

Regards,
Markus
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