Re: Problem with parallel make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Philip Guenther" <address@hidden> writes:

  db> Here's the relevant code (seeing it again for the first time in a
  db> while, I think the lseek is redundant).

  pg> On 7/30/06, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

  >> No, it's not.  If the target FD is open then dup2() will unceremoniously
  >> close it before dup'ing it.

  pg> ...which is why fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD, min_fd) exists.  I'm not sure
  pg> when that fnctl() command was first standardized, but I see it in
  pg> the SUSv2 spec...

Correct, fcntl() is the "approved" way to do this now.  However, as you
allude to, it's not nearly as portable as dup2(), even if it is in SUSv2.
For a program like GNU make I'll stick with dup2() I think.

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