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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: Wanted: bash enhancement... non-blocking 'wait' |
| Date: | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:44:38 -0600 |
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On 09/02/2010 04:44 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
I wanted to check in and see if there was a chance of this feature being accepted upstream before I spent any time on it... so here goes. The "wait [n]" command is handy, but would be even handier is: wait [[-a] n] instead, which asynchronously checks to see if process 'n' has completed.
What's wrong with using the existing 'kill -0 pid' to check if pid still exists, rather than inventing a new argument to 'wait'?
-- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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