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Subject: Re: conf/132766: wait_for_pids() in /etc/rc.subr is dull.
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Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR conf/132766; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, hide@koie.org
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> Subject: Re: conf/132766: wait_for_pids() in /etc/rc.subr is dull.
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:39:38 +0100
> 
>  The new pwait(1) utility in 9-CURRENT would be an elegant approach to this.

Thanks for the reminder, I've closed the PR.

BTW, I have looked briefly at implementing wait_for_pids with pwait.
The only complication I see at the moment is that wait_for_pids
actually takes a list of pids rather than just one, so setting that up
will complicate things slightly, but it should not be an overwhelming
burden. It will just take more time than I can devote to it at the
moment.


Doug

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