[master]: Document jobserver implementation

Update the man page with details on the internal --jobserver-fds
 option, and the jobserver pipe used to handle -j correctly in
 recursive make invocations.

 Based on details gleaned from:
 http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/jobserver-implementation/

  forwarded this bug to upstream bug reporting system.
  (Closes: #781416).

Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
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make-dfsg (4.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
* Bug fix: "manpage should document --jobserver-fds and the jobserver
pipe", thanks to Josh Triplett. Updated the manual page, and forwarded
this bug to upstream bug reporting system.(Closes: #781416).
-- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:16:58 -0800
make-dfsg (4.1-7) unstable; urgency=low make-dfsg (4.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated standards version to 3.9.7. No changes needed. * Updated standards version to 3.9.7. No changes needed.