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Re: up-grade while running
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Ole Tange |
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Re: up-grade while running |
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Mon, 19 Oct 2015 02:29:13 +0200 |
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@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