[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: bad example: GNU Parallel as dir processor
|
From: |
Ole Tange |
|
Subject: |
Re: bad example: GNU Parallel as dir processor |
|
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:39:57 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Thomas Sattler
<sattler@med.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hi again ...
>
>> However, the dir processing is being used by some users so
>> removing it as an example does not sound like a good idea.
>
> Maybe I missed the point, but isn't it a fact that -u produces
> unreliable output (due to the racing condition) and so the dir
> processing will eventually fail?
Not at all. It is just the output to stdout that may be mixed up (with
-u) or delayed (without -u). Everything else works as expected.
/Ole