Your message dated Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:35:01 -0800 with message-id <871shnf8m2....@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com> and subject line make hangs when synchronizing output and redirecting to null has caused the Debian Bug report #855336, regarding make hangs when synchronizing output and redirecting to null to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: make Version: 4.1-9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, running the attached Makefile will hang the process, if multiple jobs are used then the process wont respond to a TERM and has to be killed. The very same issue is observed with make-guile. I believe this to not be an upstream bug, since I observed this only a couple weeks ago after an upgrade. Unfortunatly I can`t pinpoint a date or version. Kind Regards, Norbert cat >Makefile <<'EOF' # run with # # rm -rf subdir # make -O >/dev/null # # add -j2, then you can' t even terminate it FILE := a b all: $(addprefix subdir/,$(FILE)) $(addprefix subdir/,$(FILE)): echo "$@" mkdir -p $(dir $@); touch $@ EOF -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (200, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages make depends on: ii libc6 2.24-9 make recommends no packages. Versions of packages make suggests: pn make-doc <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Now make does need to treat output file writing as a critical region -- otherwise, parralel makes (-j N) would all stomp on each other and interleave letters as they write. So we need locking to make output redirection with ||lel makes work. There is no sane way to handle not waiting for a lock -- if sub makes are all trying to write, how would the second submake decide what to do, if it is not to wait for the lock? So I would say this is not a bug, and make is working as expected. The culprit here is something thaqt locks up the file that make expects to redirect output to (/dev/null). I suggest not doing that :-) manoj -- A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> 4096R/C5779A1C E37E 5EC5 2A01 DA25 AD20 05B6 CF48 9438 C577 9A1C
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