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[src/trunk]: src/usr.bin/make make(1): clarify what 'recently' means in the c...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/f0f56b7c19cd
branches:  trunk
changeset: 956997:f0f56b7c19cd
user:      rillig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sat Nov 14 06:15:11 2020 +0000

description:
make(1): clarify what 'recently' means in the comments in dir.c

diffstat:

 usr.bin/make/dir.c |  20 ++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diffs (48 lines):

diff -r 55231b857754 -r f0f56b7c19cd usr.bin/make/dir.c
--- a/usr.bin/make/dir.c        Sat Nov 14 06:10:28 2020 +0000
+++ b/usr.bin/make/dir.c        Sat Nov 14 06:15:11 2020 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*     $NetBSD: dir.c,v 1.204 2020/11/14 06:10:28 rillig Exp $ */
+/*     $NetBSD: dir.c,v 1.205 2020/11/14 06:15:11 rillig Exp $ */
 
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
 #include "job.h"
 
 /*     "@(#)dir.c      8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94"  */
-MAKE_RCSID("$NetBSD: dir.c,v 1.204 2020/11/14 06:10:28 rillig Exp $");
+MAKE_RCSID("$NetBSD: dir.c,v 1.205 2020/11/14 06:15:11 rillig Exp $");
 
 #define DIR_DEBUG0(text) DEBUG0(DIR, text)
 #define DIR_DEBUG1(fmt, arg1) DEBUG1(DIR, fmt, arg1)
@@ -168,9 +168,9 @@
  *     the process too much, it could severely affect the amount of
  *     parallelism available as each directory open would take another file
  *     descriptor out of play for handling I/O for another job. Given that
- *     it is only recently that UNIX OS's have taken to allowing more than
- *     20 or 32 file descriptors for a process, this doesn't seem acceptable
- *     to me.
+ *     it is only recently (as of 1993 or earlier) that UNIX OS's have taken
+ *     to allowing more than 20 or 32 file descriptors for a process, this
+ *     doesn't seem acceptable to me.
  *
  * 3)  record the mtime of the directory in the CachedDir structure and
  *     verify the directory hasn't changed since the contents were cached.
@@ -184,11 +184,11 @@
  *     resort to using stat in its place.
  *
  * An additional thing to consider is that pmake is used primarily to create
- * C programs and until recently pcc-based compilers refused to allow you to
- * specify where the resulting object file should be placed. This forced all
- * objects to be created in the current directory. This isn't meant as a full
- * excuse, just an explanation of some of the reasons for the caching used
- * here.
+ * C programs and until recently (as of 1993 or earlier) pcc-based compilers
+ * refused to allow you to specify where the resulting object file should be
+ * placed. This forced all objects to be created in the current directory.
+ * This isn't meant as a full excuse, just an explanation of some of the
+ * reasons for the caching used here.
  *
  * One more note: the location of a target's file is only performed on the
  * downward traversal of the graph and then only for terminal nodes in the



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