On 2022-03-22 00:54, Noel Grandin wrote:
On 2022/03/21 5:09 pm, Ken Brown wrote:
On 3/21/2022 10:28 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
We have had a long-standing issue with make losing jobserver tokens.
("long-standing" here means for years, and years, at least since GNU
make 4.0, up to and including the current latest version in Cygwin.)
It was not that long ago that Linus Torvalds found a bug in the Linux
kernel pipe implementation which caused GNU make to lose jobserver
tokens, so possibly researching that bug may shed some light on the
kinds of things that could be wrong with the Cygwin pipe code.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0ddad21d3e99c743a3aa473121dc5561679e26bb
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/18/1064
Perhaps add "in pipes" to subject to get that maintainer's attention?
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
[Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
--
Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
