From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 07:14:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14015 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 07:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14008 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 07:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@sbservices.com) Received: by SITE0S1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:14:36 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5DE0@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels - SSG To: "'Greg Black'" Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: RE: wait(1) utility -- where is it? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:14:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am WELL aware of what the wait utility does. You did not specify exactly what you needed the utility to do and it is an understandable mistake to confuse wait with sleep. > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Black [SMTP:gjb@acm.org] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 6:17 AM > To: Christopher Michaels - SSG > Subject: Re: wait(1) utility -- where is it? > > > I know this doesn't answer the original question, but have you looked > into > > the sleep (1) utility? > > It doesn't have anything remotely to do with the original > question -- you should have read the wait(1) man page to see > what it did before offering this answer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message