Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:34:44 -0400
> 
> On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 22:36 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> > > > This is useful (to me) because at any time, I know what's running.
> > > > ("[Start]" messages minus "[End]" messages.)
> > > 
> > > Thanks, this is the reason I was looking for; that use-case wasn't clear
> > > to me based on the previous email.
> > 
> > OK, so what are we going to do about it? Leave, revert, new option?
> 
> I've pushed a change to add a new argument to the -O/--output-sync
> option, "job", to write output after each line of the recipe.

What is its purpose?  To avoid mixing in the same screen line
characters from several parallel sub-makes?  (That does happen, albeit
rarely.)  Or is it something else?