On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:04 PM Howard Chu <h...@highlandsun.com> wrote: > The jobserver was designed using a pipe because that is the least common > denominator > for IPC across POSIX systems - it worked across all flavors of Unix in > existence in 1991, > and continues to work unchanged to this day with no special maintenance > requirements. > > One you start deviating from least common denominator, support and > maintenance demands > increase.
Hi, I guess that means NACK for the proposal to use a socket pair if such a facility is available? But how about the proposal to support non-blocking jobserver file descriptors, should the descriptors be in the non-blocking mode? BR, Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
