Re: Parallelism a la make -j <n> / GNU parallel

[John Kearney]

Am 04.05.2012 20:53, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> On Friday 04 May 2012 13:46:32 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
>>> i wish there was a way to use `wait` that didn't block until all the pids
>>> returned.  maybe a dedicated option, or a shopt to enable this, or a new
>>> command.
>>>
>>> for example, if i launched 10 jobs in the background, i usually want to
>>> wait for the first one to exit so i can queue up another one, not wait
>>> for all of them.
>> If you set -m you can trap on SIGCHLD while waiting.
> awesome, that's a good mitigation
>
> #!/bin/bash
> set -m
> cnt=0
> trap ': $(( --cnt ))' SIGCHLD
> for n in {0..20} ; do
>       (
>               d=$(( RANDOM % 10 ))
>               echo $n sleeping $d
>               sleep $d
>       ) &
>       : $(( ++cnt ))
>       if [[ ${cnt} -ge 10 ]] ; then
>               echo going to wait
>               wait
>       fi
> done
> trap - SIGCHLD
> wait
>
> it might be a little racy (wrt checking cnt >= 10 and then doing a wait), but 
> this is good enough for some things.  it does lose visibility into which pids 
> are live vs reaped, and their exit status, but i more often don't care about 
> that ...
> -mike
That won't work I don't think.
I think you meant something more like this?

set -m
cnt=0
trap ': $(( --cnt ))' SIGCHLD
set -- {0..20}
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
        if [[ ${cnt} -lt 10 ]] ; then

                (
                        d=$(( RANDOM % 10 ))
                        echo $n sleeping $d
                        sleep $d
                ) &
                : $(( ++cnt ))
                shift
        fi
        echo going to wait
        sleep 1
done


which is basically what I did in my earlier example except I used USR2
instead of SIGCHLD and put it in a function to make it easier to use.