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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 03:25:37 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shell scripts that hang around forever
Message-ID:  <20020129110724.M59247-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <200201280119.g0S1JHD97804@lists.unixathome.org>

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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



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