svn commit: r318592 - head/benchmarks/mdtest

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Wed May 22 09:24:47 UTC 2013


On 22 May 2013 08:21, "Boris Samorodov" <bsam at passap.ru> wrote:
>
> 21.05.2013 06:34, Alexey Dokuchaev пишет:
>
> > I am also not convinced that using subshell is required.
>
> BTW, from /usr/src/UPDATING:
> -----
> 20130516:
> [...]
>         It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
>         line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
>         command line.  Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
>         than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
>         behavior in parallel build.

OK, but spawning a subshell is still wasteful.  These times all add up when
package building happens....  I guess I still don't see the value in the
chdir.

Chris


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