Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] coccicheck: enable parmap support

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means
> > it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality,
> > instead of needing one to script it out. Just look for --jobs
> > in the help output to determine if this is supported.
> > 
> > Also enable the load balancing to be dynamic, so that if a
> > thread finishes early we keep feeding it.
> > 
> > Note: now that we have all things handled for us, redirect stderr to
> > stdout as well to capture any possible errors or warnings issued by
> > coccinelle.
> > 
> > If --jobs is not supported we fallback to the old mechanism.
> > This also now accepts DEBUG_FILE= to specify where you want
> > stderr to be redirected to, by default we redirect stderr to
> > /dev/null.
> 
> Why do you want to do something different for standard error in the parmap 
> and nonparmap case?

We should just deprecate non-parmap later.

  Luis