Bug#525284: findutils: xargs -P should run n processes in parallel all the time

2017-03-05 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Control: fixed -1 4.4.2-4 Hello, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:05:53PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Package: findutils > Version: 4.4.0-2 > Severity: wishlist I have findutils 4.6.0+git+20161106-1 and cannot reproduce that: $ cat xargs-P-test #!/bin/sh for p do

Bug#525284: findutils: xargs -P should run n processes in parallel all the time

2009-04-23 Thread Marc Lehmann
Package: findutils Version: 4.4.0-2 Severity: wishlist xargs -Pn would be much more useful for parallelisation if it would try to keep running up to the specified number of processes. Right now, it starts the n processes at a time but will not start more processes until all have exited. When x