Re: bin/48367: make(1) fails to parallelize in subdirs

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48367; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/48367: make(1) fails to parallelize in subdirs
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 08:08:21 +0000

 On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:50:00PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  >  >  That doesn't explain why it works if run via all2.
  >  
  >  I bet make is only closing fd it opens.
  >  The make process that runs ${MAKE} all will be passed the job pipe
  >  fds - and I bet it doesn't make them close-on-exec.
  >  So all of it's children will find the job pipe.
 
 That's probably it.
 
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 David A. Holland
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