Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:02:32 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c job.h main.c make.c Message-ID: <41978198.5060303@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <51924.1100447133@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <51924.1100447133@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <41977CCC.8070607@portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes: > > >>Great job! However I wonder if use of pipe(2) would be better way, which >>will not leave any traces behind it in the case when all makes die in a >>way that prevents them from taking clean up actions (e.g. kill -9). > > > That's how gmake does it, and it is no end of trouble because you > have to hope for the file descriptors to survive open through shell > scripts and other gunk. And passing the numeric filedescriptors > in an environment variable is wrong in all ways it possibly can be. I see. It does not leave much options indeed. -Maxim
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