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

Reply via email to