Re: patch to support output synchronization under -j

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:15:15 -0400
> From: David Boyce <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yes, but a few words about how is this semaphore supposed to get job
> > done, and in fact what kind of "synchronization" will this bring to
> > Make, would be appreciated.  I don't think you described the feature
> > too much in your original post.
> 
> No, but what I did say was " I won't go into how it works because
> that's already done at the URLs above". Do you have specific questions
> not addressed there? They're both pretty short, and I really can't
> tell what more needs to be said without some context.

I lack the higher-level picture.  Can you describe in a few words how
will this work in a running Make?  I don't mean the details of how
files are locked and unlocked (I understand that part), I mean the
larger picture, like how it will look to the user, how several
programs running in parallel will write their output and in what order
it will appear eventually on the screen.

Thanks, and sorry for not being able to grasp all that from those URLS
and the code.