Thank you. (Once bitten, twice shy) Somebody running something under parallel is pretty much a constant in our group. (Citations to follow)
> On Oct 18, 2015, at 6:29 PM, Ole Tange <o...@tange.dk> wrote: > > 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
