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Re: Wanted: bash enhancement... non-blocking 'wait'


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Wanted: bash enhancement... non-blocking 'wait'
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:03:34 -0400
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On 9/2/10 6:44 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.

I think `kill -0 n' is an acceptable solution.

Chet

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