From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 00:57:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B571C106566B for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:57:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spawk@acm.poly.edu) Received: from acm.poly.edu (acm.poly.edu [128.238.9.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DFB8FC0A for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1893 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2009 00:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (spawk@69.123.45.64) by acm.poly.edu with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Oct 2009 00:30:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4ADE55B8.3080100@acm.poly.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:28:40 -0400 From: Boris Kochergin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090910) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <20091019144135.GA91918@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <9bbcef730910190851m7e82bd1aqc0bc55106c8a5d37@mail.gmail.com> <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov , Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Make process title - % complete X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:57:11 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:51:42 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> 2009/10/19 Alex Kozlov : >> >>> 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