cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c job.h main.c make.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <41977CCC.8070607 at portaone.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:

>Great job! However I wonder if use of pipe(2) would be better way, which 
>will not leave any traces behind it in the case when all makes die in a 
>way that prevents them from taking clean up actions (e.g. kill -9).

That's how gmake does it, and it is no end of trouble because you
have to hope for the file descriptors to survive open through shell
scripts and other gunk.  And passing the numeric filedescriptors
in an environment variable is wrong in all ways it possibly can be.

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