Re: pwait?

2021-12-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Wishing for a port...bit ugly when you can't use the supplied > > Makefile. Sadly, not volunteering myself. :-/ > > Added! Thanks for the suggestion. That was quick! Compiling the FreeBSD source was easy, though; I've found that most FreeBSD source

Re: pwait?

2021-12-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Dec 13, 2021, at 21:11, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > macOS does not have the "pwait" command that Linux and some other Unix > versions have, which allows waiting on any process (not just a child), given > the PID. There would definitely be uses for that, like dealing wit

pwait?

2021-12-13 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
macOS does not have the "pwait" command that Linux and some other Unix versions have, which allows waiting on any process (not just a child), given the PID. There would definitely be uses for that, like dealing with a process that backgrounds itself when you wish it didn't, pr