Based on the discussions of the Annotations working group, we believe we will need a couple of new classes annotations for non-parallelizable pure and side-effectful commands. The first additional annotation would describe a subclass of non-parallelizable pure and side-effectful commands that are safe to parallelize across file boundaries (allowing parallelization of for, xargs, and other similar constructs). The second class would be side-effectful commands that only read environment variables—including hardware properties, /proc filesystem etc.
Based on the discussions of the Annotations working group, we believe we will need a couple of new classes annotations for
non-parallelizable pureandside-effectfulcommands. The first additional annotation would describe a subclass ofnon-parallelizable pureandside-effectfulcommands that are safe to parallelize across file boundaries (allowing parallelization offor,xargs, and other similar constructs). The second class would beside-effectfulcommands that only read environment variables—including hardware properties,/procfilesystem etc.