Re: [SLE] shell script question (not basic)

6 Jan 2005

      On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:06:41 -0500, Patrick Shanahan
 wrote:
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* Greg Freemyer  [01-06-05 16:42]:
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First the bug:
The wait command below is not working.
If I inline the function 'clean_a_drive', the wait command works as expected.
How can I make wait actually pause until all the background functions
are complete.  If inlining the code is the only way, that will
obviously be acceptable, it just seems like there ought to be a way to
do this.
man lockfile
in fact, this was just discussed three or four days ago, here.
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Patrick Shanahan                        Registered Linux User #207535
Patrick,

As I said, I found my bug.

If the problem still existed, I'm not sure how a semaphore would help me?

A counting semaphore would do the job, but looking at 'man lockfile' I
don't see that ability.

Greg