> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:12:16 -0400 > From: David Boyce <david.s.bo...@gmail.com> > Cc: psm...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > > David, can you explain why you needed to lock the files? Also, what > > region(s) of the file you are locking? fcntl with F_WRLCK won't work > > on Windows, so the question is how to emulate it. > > I was about to write this up but I see Paul beat me to it ...
Yes, but a few words about how is this semaphore supposed to get job done, and in fact what kind of "synchronization" will this bring to Make, would be appreciated. I don't think you described the feature too much in your original post. > > Finally, I'd suggest that the system-dependent portions of sync_output > > be factored out into a separate function, so that the Windows port > > could have its own implementation without infesting job.c with yet > > another bunch of #ifdef's. > > Agree. Ifdef bad. Just wanted to see if the feature would be favorably > looked on first. I can't actually do the Windows etc ports but I could > certainly refactor it with stubs. If you refactor the Unix code, adding the Windows equivalent is easy, so you don't even need to add stubs. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
