Re: make -j changed behaviour

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:33:44 -0400 (EWT)


On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Benjamin Redelings I wrote:

# This is a good thing. To get this behaviour before, you had to do:
# MAKE='make -j4' make -j4
# which was redundant.

But _what_ changed that caused this? According to my innately flawed
logic, it has to be related to the kernel and subprocess accounting;
somehow make is getting a different value back from some system call that
is uses to count its children.

Very odd ... not that I'm complaining ...

G'day!

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