On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:49 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [ Added DJ to the participants, since he seems to be the Fedora make > maintainer - DJ, any chance that this absolutely horrid 'make' buf can > be fixed in older versions too, not just rawhide? The bugfix is two > and a half years old by now, and the bug looks real and very serious ] (snip) > But sadly, there's no way I can push that fair pipe wakeup thing as > long as this horribly buggy version of make is widespread. > > Linus In addition to the Fedora make-4.2.1-4.fc27 (1) mentioned by Linus, RHEL 8 make-4.2.1-9.el8 (2) is affected. The patch applied to Fedora make (3) has been confirmed to fix the issue in RHEL's make. Those are the only real-world examples I know of. I have no idea how widespread this thing is... Akemi (1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1556839 (2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1774790 (3) https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=b552b05251980f693c729e251f93f5225b400714
