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| author | Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> | 2015-07-31 15:52:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> | 2015-07-31 15:52:11 +0200 |
| commit | e8ca68ed89fe9d88c3a768d9c88c728996c35811 (patch) | |
| tree | 9afcdfa0128a8a0a20dc49d92956af80557f1912 /nq.c | |
| parent | 80a48d82b0b7568108382ecd28fc281e249ac547 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/nq.c b/nq.c index ccd3a7a..51e6d70 100644 --- a/nq.c +++ b/nq.c @@ -1,5 +1,19 @@ /* -##% gcc -std=c89 -Wall -g -o $STEM $FILE + * nq CMD... - run CMD... in background and in order, saving output to ,* files + * + * - requires POSIX.1-2008 + * - enforcing order works like this: + * - every job has a flock(2)ed file ala ",TIMESTAMP.PID" + * - every job starts only after all earlier flock(2)ed files finished + * - the lock is released when job terminates + * - no sub-second file system time stamps are required, jobs are started with + * millisecond precision + * - we try hard to make the currently running ,* file have +x bit + * - you can re-queue jobs using "sh ,jobid" + * + * To the extent possible under law, Christian Neukirchen, chneukirchen@gmail.com + * has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. + * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ */ #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L |