Hi,
Have you considered using port 0 instead to tap into the ephemeral port
range and communicate that port somehow?
>From what I understand, you want to use the job id as an offset to a base
port to choose a port from a range, right? That sounds non-portable to me,
spelling all sorts of ports conflict trouble.
Christian
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 18:44 Howard Chu via Bug reports and discussion for
GNU make wrote:
> In my original jobserver implementation, I filled the job pipe with
> up to 256 bytes, numbers from 0-255. The idea being that then make
> could distinguish each job with a unique ID number. That idea got
> thrown away when we decided to raise the limit to PIPEBUF (4096 on
> traditional Unix, much larger now on Linux).
>
> I'm looking for a way to expose a job ID number to the individual
> jobs, in a consecutive range from 1-[number of jobs]. Not just unique
> numbers, for that we could just use $$ already. The purpose is to
> e.g. assign non-overlapping network port numbers when firing off a
> number of client/server test scripts in parallel.
>
> Is there anything that could do this now, exposed as a Make variable?
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> -- Howard Chu
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> Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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