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* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:50:50AM CEST: > There may be systems that support mknod but not mkfifo. Not sure > whether it's useful to support them. > Implement parallel Autotest test execution: testsuite --jobs. > * lib/autotest/general.m4 (AT_JOB_FIFO_FD): New macro. > (AT_INIT): <at_jobs>: New variable. > Accept -j, -jN, --jobs[=N], document them in --help output. > Implement parallel driver loop using a FIFO, enabled with --jobs > and if mkfifo works; otherwise, fall back to sequential loop. > (AT_SETUP): Store, do not output summary progress line if > parallel. > * tests/autotest.at (parallel test execution, parallel truth) > (parallel fallacy, parallel skip): New tests. > * doc/autoconf.texi (testsuite Invocation): Document -j, --jobs, > the mkfifo requirement, and that --errexit may cause concurrent > jobs to finish. > * NEWS: Update.
