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17-Nov-2009 |
jilles |
Add pwait utility, which waits for any process to terminate.
This is similar to the Solaris utility of the same name.
Some use cases: * rc.subr's wait_for_pids * interactive use, e.g. to shut down the computer when some task is done even if the task is already running
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