Re: dd SIGUSR1 race

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/26/2014 04:05 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> +until ! kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null; do
> +  # sleep first to give time for work and enablement of signal handler
> +  sleep .5
> +  kill -s USR1 $pid 2>/dev/null || break
> +done

Should probably simplify the example in the docs to just:

  until ! kill -s USR1 $pid 2>/dev/null; do sleep .5; done

Pádraig.