Package: parallel Version: 20161222-1.1 Severity: important $ echo 1 | parallel echo sysread() isn't allowed on :utf8 handles at /usr/bin/parallel line 8410.
$ echo 1 | LC_ALL=C parallel echo 1 So the workaround is to use a non-UTF8 locale for that call. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages parallel depends on: ii perl 5.30.0-9 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2 ii sysstat 12.0.3-2 parallel recommends no packages. parallel suggests no packages. -- no debconf information --