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<<On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 06:03:18 +1100, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> said:

> 2) <kludge>Write a small C program that uses setitimer() and signals
>    its parent whenever the timer triggers.  Run it in the background
>    and just pause within the sh loop.</kludge>

SIGCHLD is good enough.

while :; do
	sleep 10 &
	do_something
	wait
done

-GAWollman