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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:21:12 +0100
From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sh 'sleep' and trap?
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--On 16 July 2014 10:55 +0100 krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote:

> send a kill to the script and then to the sleep process itself?

Would work, but wouldn't allow a simple:

  kill `head -1 /var/run/mypid.pid`

Which would make it a nasty 'exception' to how everything else works on the 
system :(

-Karl