Re: [PATCH 0/2] pipe: Fixes [ver #2]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 10:18 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looks like opensuse and ubuntu are also on 4.2.1 according to
>
>    https://software.opensuse.org/package/make
>    https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/make
>
> so apparently the bug is almost universal with the big three sharing
> this buggy version.

And the reason seems to be is that it's considered the latest "release" version.

In the git tree, I see 4.2.92, but looking at

    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

it looks like 4.2.1 is the latest actual "release".

Oh well. I can't find a workaround for the bug, other than perhaps
using "make -LX" instead of "make -jX". Which is not the same thing at
all, of course.

                Linus