Re: GNU Parallel Bug Reports Temp file location

[Josef wells]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Ole Tange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Josef wells
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Normal operation of parallel seems to use ~/.parallel/tmp in some
>> cases this is a long-distance network drive for me.. I'm unclear on
>> exactly what goes here, the files mostly look like
>> "linelen-<hostname>".
>>
>> Is there a way to relocate this area?
>
> The linelen-<hostname> file is used for caching the max line length as
> that takes 100 ms to compute. As long as you do not use 'sem' across
> multiple systems, then I do not see any reason why you cannot symlink
> ~/.parallel/tmp into /tmp:
>
>     TMP=$(mktemp -d)
>     rm -rf ~/.parallel/tmp
>     ln -s $TMP ~/.parallel/tmp
>
> Just make sure you run the above everytime /tmp has been erased.
>
>
> /Ole

Sometimes mounts fail so I'm told that I am not allowed to rely on WAN
filesystems.  It would be great if $TMPDIR or --tmpdir also worked on
these files.

Josef