On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > David, can you explain why you needed to lock the files? Also, what > region(s) of the file you are locking? fcntl with F_WRLCK won't work > on Windows, so the question is how to emulate it.
I was about to write this up but I see Paul beat me to it ... > Finally, I'd suggest that the system-dependent portions of sync_output > be factored out into a separate function, so that the Windows port > could have its own implementation without infesting job.c with yet > another bunch of #ifdef's. Agree. Ifdef bad. Just wanted to see if the feature would be favorably looked on first. I can't actually do the Windows etc ports but I could certainly refactor it with stubs. David _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
