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Re: patch to support output synchronization under -j


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: patch to support output synchronization under -j
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:30:12 -0400

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 07:18 +0100, Tim Murphy wrote:
> Right, of course :-)  That is the obvious reason for using files,
> thanks!  I was biased against writing things to disc which is probably
> silly, because it's probably not slow when compared to the size of the
> job that's running.

I think you could do the same thing with pipes although you need to
spawn a separate process to track each job, most likely.  The main
reason I prefer solutions using files is that it's the simplest and most
portable method.

> Stdout and stderr will now all be stdout, BTW (no matter what method
> one uses) but that's not generally such a problem.

I don't quite follow that?  If you're willing to separate stdout and
stderr so that, for example, all stdout output comes first followed by
all stderr, then you can still use both.  You can just create two files,
hook stdout to one and stderr to the other, and after everything is done
shuttle the contents of the stdout log file to stdout and the contents
of the stderr log file to stderr.

The functionality would be the same (as far as what goes to what file
descriptor) but they wouldn't be "interspersed".

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