Re: job race!

[Ozgur Akgun]

Hi Thomas,

On 25 April 2013 10:07, Thomas Sattler <sattler@med.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:

touch flagfile; { SECONDS=0; while [ -f flagfile ]; do sleep 1;
  done; pkill parallel; sleep $SECONDS; pkill stress; } & \
    parallel -j0 "stress -c 1 -t {} &> /dev/null && echo {};
      rm -f flagfile" ::: {3..32} 2> /dev/null

This is actually pretty close to a full solution to my original question, thanks!

One thing I don't like about it is the use of pkill though. I really don't want to assume no other instance of parallel (or my stress-replacement-process) will be running in the system.

- Ozgur.