Re: GNU make 3.81beta4 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:45:20 -0500
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>   mm> 2) "-j noNumber"
> 
> The documented and expected behavior with "-j" (no argument) is that it
> will create as many items in parallel as possible--where "possible" is
> defined by dependency relationships and not by system resources.  That's
> what "unlimited" means :-).
> 
> However, it shouldn't crash, obviously.  Does it die on UNIX?

It doesn't die; vfork returns -1 with errno set to EAGAIN, and the
rule's commands are not run.