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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:28:40 -0400
From:      Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Make process title - % complete
Message-ID:  <4ADE55B8.3080100@acm.poly.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop>
References:  <20091019144135.GA91918@ravenloft.kiev.ua>	<9bbcef730910190851m7e82bd1aqc0bc55106c8a5d37@mail.gmail.com> <87tyxtbpgp.fsf@kobe.laptop>

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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:51:42 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>   
>> 2009/10/19 Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>:
>>     
>>> How about add this statistic to make info handler?
>>>       
>> You mean SIGINFO?
>>     
>
> Yes, that's the ``info handler''.
>
> While printing something on SINGINFO arrival is a nice idea, it may not
> be extremely useful for make(1).  With dd(1) this is very useful to see,
> but with long-running make jobs that write tons of output to stderr any
> information from SIGINFO may be lost in the noise.
>
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The SIGINFO handler could be made to put the make process to sleep for, 
say, a second to give the user some time to read the statistics, but I'm 
sure there are lots of objections to be made to that, too.

-Boris



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