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It's not GNU make that got fixed. It's the pipe system call that Linus optimized. Make uses pipe as a synchronization mechanism. So all programs that use pipe t
by sumanthvepa 7y ago
It's not GNU make that got fixed. It's the pipe system call that Linus optimized. Make uses pipe as a synchronization mechanism. So all programs that use pipe this will benefit.
- mmastrac 7y agoWhat the parent comment is referring to is a pipe handling bug in early versions of GNU make that prevented kernel optimizations from happening earlier on.
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