Re: New bug: flock not implemented -> sem fails

[parallel-bugs]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:47:35 +0100
Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM,  <parallel-bugs@pkts.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I have emailed the admin on that system, and apparently they
> > normally do have flock enabled, but after their latest reboot that
> > flag was not set for some reason.  They'll fix that manually.
> >
> > I'll see what would work for a flock replacement, but I may not be
> > able to do it (time pressure).  In the meantime, could parallel be
> > modified to not enter an infinite loop when flock returns ENOSYS?
> 
> As you are the only one I know of who has this problem, it is probably
> easier for you to change and test the code. It is in the while loop
> around line 4900 where you should test if the return value is ENOSYS,
> print a warning and leave the while loop.

See attached patch 'parallel-20110802.enosys.patch'.

> > Also, if you make each of the html files depend on a previous html
> > file, then 'make -j' will serialize them and the pod2html problem
> > goes away. This unfortunately means that someone who just wants to
> > build one html file may get more than they want, but that's a
> > smaller group than the group of people who type 'make -j'
> > indiscriminately. :-)
> 
> The actual program 'parallel' is a single, very portable perl script.
> You should be able to copy that to any UNIX-like machine and it will
> run. So you should have no problem installing GNU Parallel on another
> machine and simply copy the 'parallel' program to the target machine.

See attached patch 'parallel-20110802.pod2html.patch'.

> 
> /Ole



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