ENH: Fix issue with parallel execution of the same do-file on Unix systems.

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#3 opened on Jan 9, 2021 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: tooling

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No file, test, or entry point is named, so first locate the pytask-stata code that launches Stata do-files and handles their logs, then inspect the Unix and Windows execution paths. Done means parallel runs of the same do-file keep separate logs on Unix, avoid overwriting one another, and still support task-failure detection.

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enhancement

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Stata produces log files which have the same name as the executed do-file when used in batch mode.

Parallelizing over the same do-file ...

may create multiple workers which want to create the same log file at the same time.
may overwrite the log produced by one task with the information from another task. Whether a task fails is partly inferred from the log file,

On Windows, there is a hacky and maybe not even intended work-around to rename the log file for every task which does not work on Unix.

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