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Re: Request For Enhancement - TID variable

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Date Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:54:27 -0500
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Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>:
> Are you sure that'd help? Parallel runs bash in a bunch of subprocesses, so
> looking at PID would suffice to distinguish jobs. Are you sure you weren't
> seeing an invariant PID because you were letting the PID variable expansion
> happen too early?

The $$ is inside the script. I don't see how it could be later.

Rerunning the command, I think I misinterprteted the error messages before.  
The script is a wrapper around another script that is calling svnadmin to
create a Subversion repository.  svnadmin doesn't like something about 
its calling context and is complaining that it can't write a directory
atomically.

Not bash's problem.  Carry on!
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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Re: Request For Enhancement - TID variable "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> - 2019-12-26 14:54 -0500

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