Re: Weirdness with suspending jobs in 2.6.9-rc3

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:33:24PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> It seems that make (possibly among other things) has been affected by
> some change in 2.6.9-rcX that prevents it from resuming some jobs.
> 
> I created this Makefile as a testcase:
> 
> all:
> 	sleep 5
> 	echo Hi
> 	sleep 5
> 
> The result:
> 
> darjeeling:~{0}% make
> sleep 5
> 
> zsh: suspended  make
> darjeeling:~{1}% bg
> [1]  + continued  make
> make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> darjeeling:~{1}% echo Hi
> Hi
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> sleep 5
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> [1]  + exit 2     make
> 
> This happens with bash also. I'm pretty sure it didn't use to happen
> with older kernels. Any ideas?


I'm also observing this problem.

It doesn't depend on which version I'm compiling, it depends on which 
kernel I'm actually running.

(2.6.9-rc1 is OK, 2.6.8-rc3-mm3 is not OK.)


> Thanks
> Joshua Kwan

cu
Adrian

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