Subject: Re: Strange behavior with build.sh -j 4
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/03/2002 07:30:17
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:31:25AM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

 > Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 > > It might be possible to use kqueue to notify make when children exit
 > > (the CVS log for job.c in FreeBSD's make mentions that it has has some
 > > code for this but that it's "disabled because it panics the kernel"),
 > 
 > Yuck. This might be related to a EVFILT_PROC panic I fixed several
 > months ago. I guess I should rather try the patch and confirm it
 > doesn't cause problem on NetBSD.

Regardless, we should absolutely NOT change make(1) to use kqueue; we
need the program to be portable.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>