Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:28:40 -0400 From: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Make process title - % complete Message-ID: <4ADE55B8.3080100@acm.poly.edu> In-Reply-To: <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20091019144135.GA91918@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <9bbcef730910190851m7e82bd1aqc0bc55106c8a5d37@mail.gmail.com> <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:51:42 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> 2009/10/19 Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>: >> >>> How about add this statistic to make info handler? >>> >> You mean SIGINFO? >> > > Yes, that's the ``info handler''. > > While printing something on SINGINFO arrival is a nice idea, it may not > be extremely useful for make(1). With dd(1) this is very useful to see, > but with long-running make jobs that write tons of output to stderr any > information from SIGINFO may be lost in the noise. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The SIGINFO handler could be made to put the make process to sleep for, say, a second to give the user some time to read the statistics, but I'm sure there are lots of objections to be made to that, too. -Boris
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