Re: Using GNU make jobserver from GCC

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jan Hubicka <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:05:45 -0400
> 
> I agree in principle: the read/write vs. semaphore etc. should be easy
> to abstract.  However the added complexity of dealing with SIGCHLD
> handling while waiting on the pipe in POSIX might not be so simple to
> extract into a generic interface, given the complex behaviors in job.c.

I believe this can be easily worked around by using a separate
thread.  I think all this complexity is because SIGCHLD and its
handling serve as a kind of poor-man threading.