Re: EAGAIN in "read jobs pipe"

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 01:53 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:

> An essential design choice. This stuff relies on reads and writes of the 
> job_fd being atomic and the writes never blocking. POSIX guarantees a 4K 
> buffer for pipes. Perhaps the code should check the resource limit and 
> complain if the -j argument exceeds the resource limit: "Error: why 
> don't you just use '-j' ??"

Yes, that's a good idea.  I will add some error checking to the code
that initially seeds the pipe with tokens.

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