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

[Andreas Schwab]

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> not on my system it doesn't.  maybe a difference in bash versions.  as soon 
> as 
> one process quits, the `wait` is interrupted, a new one is forked, and the 
> parent goes back to sleep until another child exits.  if i don't `set -m`, 
> then i see what you describe -- the wait doesn't return until all 10 children 
> exit.

(bash) Bash POSIX Mode::

 46. The arrival of `SIGCHLD'  when a trap is set on `SIGCHLD' does not
     interrupt the `wait' builtin and cause it to return immediately.
     The trap command is run once for each child that exits.

(I think the description is backwards.)

Andreas.

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