On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Martin d'Anjou
wrote:
> On 16-05-23 06:46 PM, Ole Tange wrote:
>>
>> Should GNU Parallel ignore, kill or wait for background children?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> $ parallel '(sleep 100) & echo' ::: 1
:
> Do not leak processes. In the simple case, it is as bad as leaking
On 16-05-24 04:06 PM, Ole Tange wrote:
GNU Make, which has a parallel feature, does not leak processes. GNU
Parallel should not leak either.
That, unfortunately, is not true. Try this Makefile:
all:
bash -c "(sleep 100) &"
make -j will finish immediately - leaking the sleep process. Th
