> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:30:42 -0400 > From: David Boyce <david.s.bo...@gmail.com> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>, bug-make@gnu.org > > I don't know why this hasn't occurred to me or the authors of similar > programs before, but it appears to be possible to get a lock on any > writable file descriptor - for instance stdout or stderr, or one of > the jobserver-fds. I just changed syncsh to synchronize around a lock > on stdout and it seems to work. This looks much more elegant than > specifying a writable file. > > Or is my understanding of file/pipe/locking semantics flawed? And how > would Windows/DOS/VMS/OS2 would do with this?
If you explain what you mean by "file/pipe/locking" (e.g., what APIs do you intend to use?), I will look into the possibilities of emulating that on DOS/Windows. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
