xjobs README
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Contact:
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Author: Thomas Maier-Komor
e-mail: thomas@maier-komor.de


LICENSE:
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GNU GPL 2 (see file COPYING for details)


DESCRIPTION:
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For a detailed description refer to the included manpage.


INSTALLATION:
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In most cases you should get happy by executing "make install". If you
had to apply fixes to the Makefile or the sources, please let me know
what you had to do.


ChangeLog:
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See file ChangeLog.


KNOWN LIMITATIONS:
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Cygwin seems to have a couple of issues concerning named pipes:
1) no SIGPOLL when a named pipe gets ready
2) read incorrectly returning 0, when there is still a writer on the pipe
3) need to reopen a pipe to access data written by another process
4) incorrectly delivering SIGPIPE to writer, as a consequence of 2)

In consequence, when using xjobs under Cygwin with a named pipe, single
jobs might be rejected completely by signaling SIGPIPE to the sender.
This is not a problem of xjobs, but rather an implementation issue of
Cygwin.


FEEDBACK:
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I would be grateful concerning getting feedback. If you like xjobs,
dislike it because of a specific reason, want to report a bug or have a
request for enhancement, feel free to contact me.


DONATIONS:
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If you like this software and would like to support it, you can donate
to my PayPal account via e-mail.
