On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Ken Wesson wrote: > sh is asynchronous. It calls Runtime/exec, which launches the sleep as > a separate process and immediately returns a Process object (which > your pmap should be returning a seq of). It may produce n+2 Process > objects at a time but it produces them all before the first of the > asynchronous sleep processes finishes, so for a while all of the > latter are running at the same time.
Really? The documentation for sh claims to return a map, which is what I observe. And the call to sh doesn't return until the sub-process has finished, even if I discard its return value (so it can't be the case that the resulting "map" is actually some lazy thing that blocks when I try to access its contents). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
