On 7/31/20 4:19 PM, Mark Salyzyn via Toybox wrote: > 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
I did a slightly smaller implementation (I'd looked at implementing -P before, but waited for somebody to complain about its absence), which supports SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. Does what I checked in work for you? Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
