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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:19:54 +0100
From:      Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] add pwait utility
Message-ID:  <20091107201954.GA84099@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20091107130136.GI2331@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20091106222446.GB60707@stack.nl> <20091107112832.24b0c0d4@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20091107130136.GI2331@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 03:01:36PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:28:32AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:24:46 +0100
> > Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote:

> > > I propose adding a small new utility to /usr/bin: pwait. Similar to the
> > > Solaris utility of the same name, it waits for any process to terminate.

> > Why not /bin so it can be used before /usr is mounted?
> And it seems to make sense to add this functionality to pkill/pgrep
> binary, creating another hardlink to it.

Hmm, pwait's syntax is incompatible: it takes pids (pkill says: use
kill) and the -v option does something totally different.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker



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