Re: How does this wait -n work to cap parallelism?

From	Earnestly <zibeon@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: How does this wait -n work to cap parallelism?
Date	2019-07-29 20:02 +0100
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 02:38:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The same happens for my_job 7, and my_job 8.  Each one is preceded by
> a wait -n, so it waits for one of the existing jobs to terminate before
> the new job is launched.

This aspect of the behaviour isn't in question.

Without reiterating too much, the question is about how that cap is
maintained after the 'wait -n' loop only ever experiences a single agent
while 'i' is incrementing, and only after 'i' has exceeded 'nproc' does
the parallelism start.

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Re: How does this wait -n work to cap parallelism? Earnestly <zibeon@googlemail.com> - 2019-07-29 20:02 +0100

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