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Fedora 22: 2016-7eb5caa94d Critical: Parallel Tool Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Apply Fedora 22 upgrade to enhance stability, address major issues, and boost efficiency when using the GNU Parallel utility.
Update to version 20160222-1 to fix bugs (#1285888,1307846,1320511,1320956,1320958)

Summary

GNU Parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more

machines. A job is typically a single command or a small script that has to be

run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a

list of hosts, a list of users, or a list of tables.

If you use xargs today you will find GNU Parallel very easy to use. If you

write loops in shell, you will find GNU Parallel may be able to replace most of

the loops and make them run faster by running jobs in parallel. If you use ppss

or pexec you will find GNU Parallel will often make the command easier to read.

GNU Parallel also makes sure output from the commands is the same output as you

would get had you run the commands sequentially. This makes it possible to use

output from GNU Parallel as input for other programs.

GNU Parallel is command-line-compatible with moreutils' parallel, but offersadditional features.

Update Information:

Update to version 20160222-1 to fix bugs (#1285888,1307846,1320511,1320956,1320958)

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security advisory critical issue software update Fedora bug fix parallel tool

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1320956 - parallel: Race condition when recreating temporary files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320956

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update parallel' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: parallel
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 20160222
Release: 1.fc22
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Summary: Shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

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security advisory critical issue software update Fedora bug fix parallel tool

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