GNU Parallel Bug Reports Work-around for stackdump on cygwin

[John Marter]

I don’t imagine that this is a very useful general patch that will ever get applied, but it did fix the problem I have with /bin/true version 8.15-1 on Cygwin.  Since I upgraded yesterday, every time I run parallel, I get a true.exe.stackdump left in the directory.  As I type this up, I remember now that unlink is the perl command I was looking for instead of system “rm…”, but in any case this is just a temporary work-around that I thought you might want to be aware of.

 

 

--- parallel~   2013-08-14 12:39:47.809306900 -0500

+++ parallel    2013-08-14 12:43:04.503974400 -0500

@@ -5275,10 +5275,12 @@

 

     local *STDERR;

     open (STDERR, ">", "/dev/null");

    system "true "."x"x$len;

     close STDERR;

     ::debug("$len=$? ");

-    return not $?;

+    my $rv = $?;

+    system "rm --force true.exe.stackdump";

+    return not $rv;

}

 

 

John Marter

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