Re: bmake inefficiencies

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%juniper.net@localhost>]

Simon J. Gerraty <sjg%juniper.net@localhost> wrote:

> David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > "static volatile sig_atomic_t reap_children;"
> 
> I chose int (which is what sig_atomic_t is) for portability.
> 
> > but also, I would expect that this childExitJob.outPipe can go away.
> 
> Possibly, the claimed purpose is to cause poll/select to return.

Eliminating the pipe for purpose of SIGCHLD should be simple enough, but
it is used for resuming children too...
So not sure  the pipe itself can go away.