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Re: Should make handle non-blocking jobserver and use socket pair instea
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Juha-Matti Tilli |
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Re: Should make handle non-blocking jobserver and use socket pair instead? |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2019 23:22:23 +0300 |
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:04 PM Howard Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 with no special maintenance
> requirements.
>
> One you start deviating from least common denominator, support and
> maintenance demands
> increase.
Hi,
I guess that means NACK for the proposal to use a socket pair if such
a facility is available?
But how about the proposal to support non-blocking jobserver file
descriptors, should the descriptors be in the non-blocking mode?
BR, Juha-Matti