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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 07 May 2012 09:08:33 Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/5/12 12:28 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 04 May 2012 16:17:02 Chet Ramey wrote:
> >> On 5/4/12 2:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> 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 ...
> >> 
> >> What version of bash did you test this on?  Bash-4.0 is a little
> >> different in how it treats the SIGCHLD trap.
> > 
> > bash-4.2_p28.  wait returns 145 (which is SIGCHLD).
> 
> I wonder if you were running in Posix mode.  Posix says

yes, i think that is what i was doing `sh ./test.sh`
-mike

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