Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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?
I agree. It's such a tiny thing there's no reason not to put it in /bin, and the potential benefits (being able to use it when /usr is not present) far outweigh the costs. >> 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. I agree with Jilles, I don't see any reason to complicate this. If there is some reason that pkill/pgrep would need the functionality internally then the pwait stuff could be turned into a library, but I don't think that's what Kostik was proposing. When you get this committed (in whatever form) send a note to [email protected] so that we can look at re-implementing wait_for_pids with this. I think this is a very nice addition, thanks for taking it on. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
