GNU Parallel Bug Reports halt soon,fail=1 behaviour

[Evan Benn]

What is the expected behaviour of --halt soon,fail=1?

"'soon' which means wait for all running jobs to complete, but start no new 
jobs".

>From this I would expect no new jobs to be started. But it is not the case:

parallel --halt soon,fail=1 -j1 false ::: 1 1 1

false: expected 0 args, got 1
parallel: This job failed:
false 1
false: expected 0 args, got 1
parallel: This job failed:
false 1
false: expected 0 args, got 1
parallel: This job failed:
false 1


3 jobs are run, even though the first fails and only 1 is run at a time.



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Evan Benn
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