On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Tim Murphy <tnmur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since some things happen at the same time there is no single "serial > order". The semaphore mechanism, forces one of the possible orders. >
I'm not familiar with source code of make, but I believe the "serial order" of shells is determined by the dependence DAG, it may be unique for a given dependence DAG. Shells can be issued and completed at random order(only need satisfying the dependence relation). But make can print their outputs strictly in their "serial order". -- Chiheng Xu Wuhan,China _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
