Re: "open files" with --files --pipe

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Sattler
<sattler@med.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Hi there ...
>
> I tried to use the --pipe and --files options and found
> that parallel sometimes stops working. It seems as if
> this is somehow related to ulimit's "open files". I
> can reproduce it with the following commands:
>
> $ ulimit -n 500; yes | parallel --files --pipe true | nl | tail -n3

It was an error introduced in 20121222.

Fixed and a test is now in place so it will not be re-introduced.
Thanks for reporting the bug.


/Ole