On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > Well, yuck, this makes for ways too many extra processes just for that.
There are no more processes than your wrapper program, and only two more execs of /bin/sh. Considering make's primary task is forking and exec'ing /bin/sh processes, I doubt you'd notice the overhead. :P Anyway, it was a tongue-in-cheek proposal.