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From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: subcommand to pause/resume builds
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:00:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d00qoztl.fsf@asu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg9m3lqf.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:58:32 +0100")

Hello everyone,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> After perusing info recutils some, I expected the output to be more
>> like:
>>
>> ChildProcessPID: 16923
>> ChildProcessCommand: guile --no-auto-compile -L
>> /gnu/store/8a0wry8cvr405ha8d8bpjyzj5dzghigd-module-import
>> /gnu/store/mh1fkn1d9c9mg6hihxvjngxmn3qjmp38-ungoogled-chromium-86.0.4240.111-0.c34a56d-guile-builder
>
> Yes, that would be nicer.

I sent in patch https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/44460 to address
it. With that I don't see any reason to consider a subcommand.


> However, note that if you fiddle with child processes, your warranty is
> void!  :-)

Definitely agreed.

> You’d be interfering with build processes, thus potentially changing
> their result in an uncontrolled way.

Like Mark said, I have seen tests potentially time out, and I have to agree.

I am done discussing a subcommand. I'll shift attention to #44460.

Thanks for listening to little old me :).

Have a nice weekend,

John


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-02 18:56 RFC: subcommand to pause/resume builds John Soo
2020-11-03 13:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-03 14:41   ` John Soo
2020-11-03 16:32   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-03 17:12     ` John Soo
2020-11-06  8:56       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-03 17:19     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-03 18:27       ` John Soo
2020-11-03 20:01       ` John Soo
2020-11-06  8:58         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-06 23:00           ` John Soo [this message]
2020-11-04 10:28   ` Bengt Richter
2020-11-06 21:11   ` Mark H Weaver
2020-11-08 16:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-05  4:37 John Soo

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