# $Id: TODO,v 1.13 2012/11/12 20:06:33 ksb Exp $

Major fix needed: to make the pid send more reliable, use a
msgsnd/msgrcv to get the pid?  Of course multiple senders race.
Sigh.  SCM_CRED doesn't always pass the pid (on every UNIX system).
So we don't publish a pid that is always right.

We keep the comments from the token source, but can't output them
to the shell level (yet).

Maybe options:

Allow -Y to specify that when the token source changes we should
re-read the file (or directory).  But what do we do about tasks that
have a token out that is now gone?  Humm.  Let them finish, but
don't allow the token to be released back into the queue.

Allow "variable resources allocation" (-jmax), to allow 1 to 10 max_jobs:
	ptbw -AR1 -j10 sh -c 'exec make -j $# all'
or allow -R to take a range (save an option letter)
	ptbw -AR1-10 sh -c 'exec make -j $# all'
the Pascal ".." might be better,  so it doens't look like subtraction?
	ptbw -R 2..30 sh -c ...

Allow "-t dir/" to force the token list to be the list of names in
the directory that do NOT start with a dot (.).  Stangely we could
even look for changes in the dir to keep the list up-to-date (-Y) above?
This would allow a process to ask for a file, open it, unlink it,
process it, then ask for more another to use a directory as a queue.
If the original sort is by ctime...  humm.

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ksb, Sep 2012