Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sat, 1 May 2021 23:40:14 +0200 From:Joerg Sonnenberger Message-ID: | The obvious differences I see: | - SHELL is ignored by gmake in the posix_spawn path Doesn't matter, the alternative (execvp path) also ignores it (and in any case, this only matters for

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2021-05-01 Thread NetBSD source update
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Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > gmake since version 4.3 uses posix_spawn(), but that breaks the build > of firefox (and libreoffice). Disabling posix_spawn() support in gmake > works around this problem.[1] The obvious differences I see: - SHELL is ignored by

Re: booting xen [was Re: serial console puzzle]

2021-05-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
I've copied this reply to port-xen as it's entirely Xen related. At Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:50:10 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Subject: Re: booting xen [was Re: serial console puzzle] > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 07:28:57PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > > > > boot.cfg contains: > > > > menu=Boot

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

2021-05-01 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Fri, 30 Apr 2021 15:23:03 +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: Subject: Re: Problem reports for version control systems > > On 4/30/21 7:31 AM, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > The problem reports people have in their > > emails are completely inadequate for > > trying to determine what is

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

2021-05-01 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 30 Apr 2021 at 19:51:27 +1000, matthew green wrote: > > I too get long pauses with cvs, both at the beginning, > > and even longer at the end after update is complete. > > the end part is most likely cvs cleaning up after itslf by > removing all the subdirs it created but doesn't need.

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 02:50:02PM +0200, Jaromír Dole?ek wrote: > Well, there is one obvious difference - gmake uses > POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK - glibc supports it, we don't. Well, it does not use it on NetBSD (and it makes no sense to support here). And that flag is not allowed to change any

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

2021-05-01 Thread matthew sporleder
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:50 AM Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 05:31:53PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > > ceph4% hg --version > > Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 5.3.2) > > Please note that this is quite an old version and a lot of work on > improving both CPU

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Jaromír Doleček
Le sam. 1 mai 2021 à 14:25, Martin Husemann a écrit : > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 01:13:43PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > The whole file is here: > > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/job.c > > But since it mostly works (and only fails in some environments) there > must

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Greg Troxel
The actual POSIX spec may be useful: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_spawn.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 01:13:43PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > The whole file is here: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/src/job.c But since it mostly works (and only fails in some environments) there must be something special ongoing, and we will have to find out what that

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Thomas Klausner
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 12:55:58PM +0200, Jaromír Doleček wrote: > Le sam. 1 mai 2021 à 11:15, Martin Husemann a écrit : > > > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > gmake since version 4.3 uses posix_spawn(), but that breaks the build > > > of firefox (and

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Jaromír Doleček
Le sam. 1 mai 2021 à 11:15, Martin Husemann a écrit : > > On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > gmake since version 4.3 uses posix_spawn(), but that breaks the build > > of firefox (and libreoffice). Disabling posix_spawn() support in gmake > > works around this

Re: posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 11:02:26AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > gmake since version 4.3 uses posix_spawn(), but that breaks the build > of firefox (and libreoffice). Disabling posix_spawn() support in gmake > works around this problem.[1] > > Is there a bug/incompatibility in our posix_spawn()

posix_spawn issue?

2021-05-01 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! NetBSD implements posix_spawn() and Linux does too. gmake since version 4.3 uses posix_spawn(), but that breaks the build of firefox (and libreoffice). Disabling posix_spawn() support in gmake works around this problem.[1] Is there a bug/incompatibility in our posix_spawn() or is there a

Re: Problem reports for version control systems

2021-05-01 Thread Hauke Fath
On Sat, 1 May 2021 12:58:50 +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote: > I'm not using a SLOG. I couldn't be bothered setting one up on my > crash and burn systems. It doesn't seem to be too bad, except for > when I try and run "rm -rf src". Looking at 'systat -w2 vmstat' during writes to zfs, the activity on