Re: FYI: make's "max_jobs" needs to be separated from -j (now?)

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, Warner Losh wrote:

>       Ack, okay.   I can't trigger it with a fresh or my /usr/obj but in any
>       event the error number 6 is probably referring to a path or directory
>       missing while doing a parallel build given some input state :-)
>
>       #define ENXIO           6               /* Device not configured */
> 
> 
> ENXIO usually is reserved for hardware errors when a device disappears
> for block I/O contexts. So I'm not sure that this theory is so good.
> 
> But shell error exit statuses are largely independent of errnos.
> 
> Warner

Thank you, I was indeed stretching to make error no 6 work for me in this 
context by thinking it was really a mis identitied file or directory not 
found.  However, if someone's going to return 6, then they'll return a 6, 
nothing I can do about it other than expect it again sometime.
:-)

Dan