Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Re: an issue with GNU make 3.78 and above on DYNIX/ptx... ms $ gmake --version ms GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. ms Built for i386-sequent-sysv4 ms $ uname -a ms DYNIX/ptx roll

Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
On Wed, 31 May 2000, Paul D. Smith wrote: OK, I've investigated this further. The reason you never see this problem on "normal" UNIX systems is that it's not legal for stat(2) to fail with EINTR. In other words, stat(2) is not interruptible, by definition, due to signals. Looking at both

Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms Do the specifications say that EINTR is not required or that it ms is forbidden? Hmm. They say that a function may have more return error codes than listed in the standards, so you're right: I guess there's nothing

RE: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx

2000-05-31 Thread Howard Chu
http://highlandsun.com/hyc -Original Message- From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 12:22 PM To: Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: -j fails on DYNIX/ptx %% "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" [EMAIL PROTECT