Personally I would have closed this as Not a Bug since it has been
clearly documented for 30+ years. Users are responsible for reading
the docs and learning how their tools work.
Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #56701 (project make):
>
> Let's try to fix this issue and avoid
Juha-Matti Tilli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Please CC me, I’m not on the list)
The jobserver was designed using a pipe because that is the least common
denominator
for IPC across POSIX systems - it worked across all flavors of Unix in
existence in 1991,
and continues to work unchanged to this day
