On Wed, 16 May 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> It's very likely that you're running into a known problem with signals:
> the jobserver requires non-restartable system calls, but the code is not
> safe for this: in some places it doesn't check for EINTR results. This
> can cause system calls to fail and not be noticed.
>
> I have a comprehensive solution to this problem which _doesn't_ involve
> adding EINTR checks to every system call in GNU make (ouch!).
Paul -
Is there a beta version available that I would try out on PTX?
This has been a problem for us in the past and we're currently running
a patched version of gmake to get it to work properly with regard to
non-restartable system calls.
The EINTR checks are definitely painful. ;-)
Thanks,
Michael Sterrett
-Mr. Bones.-
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