My Unix brain simulator agrees with reality. & Puts stuff in the background. No longer parallel's concern at that point.
Josef On May 23, 2016 5:47 PM, "Ole Tange" <[email protected]> wrote: > Should GNU Parallel ignore, kill or wait for background children? > > Example: > > $ parallel '(sleep 100) & echo' ::: 1 > 1 > $ ps -opid,pgrp,cmd > PID PGRP CMD > 915719 915719 /bin/bash > 937618 937617 sleep 100 > 937620 937620 ps -opid,pgrp,cmd > > The sleep is put in the background. The echo finishes, and GNU > Parallel exits, while the sleep is still running. > > Is this what you expect? > > Or do you expect GNU Parallel to wait for the background job? Should > it do that for every job? Or just when GNU Parallel is about to exit? > > Or do you expect GNU Parallel to kill the background job? Should it do > that for every job? Or just when GNU Parallel is about to exit? > > > /Ole > >
