Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Hmm, interesting. Your approach seems reasonable, but I have to wonder > if writing the pid in the first place is sane. > > I started to write up my reasoning in this email, but realized it was > rapidly becoming the content of a commit message. So here is that > commit. Sounds sensible; if this makes Dscho's "which ones failed in the previous run" simpler, that is even better ;-)