Re: [bug #56701] Do not allow -j without a number

[Dennis Clarke]

On 8/26/19 1:46 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 8/26/19 1:32 PM, David Boyce wrote:
> > My vote is to leave -j alone. Everyone knows it shouldn't be used that 
> > way in production...
>
> Please allow me to follow up here and agree. Common sense should prevail
> and in the true sense of UNIX and Linux philosophy a tool does one thing
> and does that one thing well. It should need to hand hold the user with
> common sense.

Should NOT need to hand hold the user.

Also gnulib is not what I call portable. So if the sysconf/getconf calls
are not around to give us _NPROCESSORS_ONLN or even _NPROCESSORS_CONF
then no way should some hack attempt be made to extract that data. No
promise the data is available at all in a portable manner anyways and
get_nprocs_conf should be entirely avoided.



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