Forwarding (Steffen does not have his address subscribed, so it did not make it to the list)
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Steffen Nurpmeso > Subject: Fwd: Re: [1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 0001436]: make: add "-j > max_jobs" option to support simultaneous rule processing > Date: 22 May 2021 at 15:09:21 BST > To: austin-group-l@opengroup.org > X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list > > --- Forwarded from Steffen Nurpmeso > Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 17:57:20 +0200 > From: Steffen Nurpmeso > To: Austin Group Bug Tracker <nore...@msnkbrown.net> > Subject: Re: [1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 0001436]: make: add "-j max_jobs" > option to support simultaneous rule processing > Message-ID: <20210521155720.khyhn%stef...@sdaoden.eu> > OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; > url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt > > Austin Group Bug Tracker wrote in > <79557df8f0e0d0b53548449c40247...@austingroupbugs.net>: > |https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1436 > ... > |---------------------------------------------------------------------- > | (0005362) rhansen (manager) - 2021-05-20 17:08 > | https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1436#c5362 > |---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |We think we have achieved consensus on a rewrite of the description of the > |<b>-j</b> option; see "attempt #3" on line 65 of > |https://posix.rhansen.org/p/2021-05-20. Feedback would be appreciated. > > I am not a honourable make(1) programmer but since i opened the > issue i want to state that i liked it when i read it last night. > I was actually surprised to see the issue reopened as such, > because my thinking would have been that a -j parallelized make(1) > enters some kind of jobserver mode that becomes established via > some environmental setting (or whatever the programmer chooses aka > can easily be found by subprocesses), the existence of which is > checked by make(1) at startup. Then stating something like "i am > process X, and my parent is Y" etc. And the rest being up to the > make(1) implementor as a quality of implementation (scheduling, > fair even more so, seems to reside in the area of very complicated > programming). I was surprised to see that rule content matters at > all. > > A nice weekend i wish from Germany, > > --steffen > | > |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, > |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one > |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off > |(By Robert Gernhardt) > > -- End forward <20210521155720.khyhn%stef...@sdaoden.eu> > > --steffen > | > |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, > |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one > |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off > |(By Robert Gernhardt) > -------- Andrew Josey, The Open Group, ajo...@opengroup.org
