On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsarg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We would like to move to a more current version (20150822) but we have > ongoing parallelizations. My assumption is that we need to wait for running > invocations of parallel to complete before upgrading. Is that a correct > assumption? Or are the active executables safely in memory? GNU Parallel is a single perl script. Perl read the script, compiles it into bytecode, and then runs it. So it should be safe to upgrade while running. /Ole