Re: lockf in installworld -- not a good idea

From: Astrodog <astrodog_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:16:39 -0500
On 9/29/06, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > For what its worth.... I'd go with just stopping support for -j in
> > installworld, even if things are CPU bound.
>
> installworld should *NEVER* be done -j.  Ever.  That wasn't part of
> the installworld bargin when it was started.  There's no point to it
> at all.  As such, any support to make it work should be removed with
> extreme prejustice.  Why on earth would you want to do installworld
> -j?


That's kinda my thought.

--- Harrison
Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 13:17:27 UTC

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