On 7/31/20 12:30 PM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
-P flag was fake just to provide compatibility. Add support for -P
maximum process count to actually create parallelism. Does not
support SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2 increment/decrement signals as publicly
documented for other variants. If max-proc is 0, run as many
processes as possible simultaneously.
The Bug: referenced were scrubbed, and regardless hides some history.
When using toybox xargs for a kernel build, it added 5 minutes to the
total build time when it ignored the -P8 flag and exec'd only one at a time.
Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
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