From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 29 9:25:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D3437B432 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:25:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93827A842; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:25:37 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F6954E3; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:25:37 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:25:37 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell scripts that hang around forever In-Reply-To: <200201280119.g0S1JHD97804@lists.unixathome.org> Message-ID: <20020129110724.M59247-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > Folks: have a look at this FreshPorts shell script and let me know if > there is a better way to do this. You could avoid polling (at the expense of a fork) by using wait_on (PR #34414). Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message