From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 15:15:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6211116A4B3; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3C243D96; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8TFEEfx027158; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:14:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:14:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20060929.091414.74722768.imp@bsdimp.com> To: astrodog@gmail.com From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <2fd864e0609290707t7e7d6e17g61a09ff5aa10ff3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060929134332.GD4776@rambler-co.ru> <20060929144738.W70454@fledge.watson.org> <2fd864e0609290707t7e7d6e17g61a09ff5aa10ff3f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.bsdimp.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:14:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: rwatson@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lockf in installworld -- not a good idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:15:20 -0000 > For what its worth.... I'd go with just stopping support for -j in > installworld, even if things are CPU bound. installworld should *NEVER* be done -j. Ever. That wasn't part of the installworld bargin when it was started. There's no point to it at all. As such, any support to make it work should be removed with extreme prejustice. Why on earth would you want to do installworld -j? Warner