> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]> > Cc: Jan Hubicka <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:05:45 -0400 > > I agree in principle: the read/write vs. semaphore etc. should be easy > to abstract. However the added complexity of dealing with SIGCHLD > handling while waiting on the pipe in POSIX might not be so simple to > extract into a generic interface, given the complex behaviors in job.c.
I believe this can be easily worked around by using a separate thread. I think all this complexity is because SIGCHLD and its handling serve as a kind of poor-man threading. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
