From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 21 9:52:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107FC37B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0LHnXU24558; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:49:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brooks Davis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Project idea: Put PVM in /usr/bin/make In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:10:55 PST." <20020121091055.A5296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:49:33 +0100 Message-ID: <24556.1011635373@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020121091055.A5296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: >> What you suggest is not going to happen in any of the next couple of >> years unless $BIGCORP pays somebody to do it. > >I doubt it's nearly as complicated as you claim. All you have to do is >tell the system to envoke a set of jobs which is a fairly straight >forward thing to do (it's not much harder then envoking rsh and you >could easily write a simple wrapper that provided rsh symantics if it >doesn't exist already.) Uhm, PVM is a *much* faster way to start a job than rsh... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message