Hi,
Have you considered using port 0 instead to tap into the ephemeral port
range and communicate that port somehow?
>From what I understand, you want to use the job id as an offset to a base
port to choose a port from a range, right? That sounds non-portable to me,
spelling all sorts of ports co
In my original jobserver implementation, I filled the job pipe with
up to 256 bytes, numbers from 0-255. The idea being that then make
could distinguish each job with a unique ID number. That idea got
thrown away when we decided to raise the limit to PIPEBUF (4096 on
traditional Unix, much larger n
