On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Sattler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there ... > > I tried to use the --pipe and --files options and found > that parallel sometimes stops working. It seems as if > this is somehow related to ulimit's "open files". I > can reproduce it with the following commands: > > $ ulimit -n 500; yes | parallel --files --pipe true | nl | tail -n3
It was an error introduced in 20121222. Fixed and a test is now in place so it will not be re-introduced. Thanks for reporting the bug. /Ole
