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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Waiting for an arbitrary background process (limiting number of jobs running) Post 302390843 by dpc.ucore.info on Friday 29th of January 2010 07:25:48 AM
Old 01-29-2010
My basic idea for solution would be to spawn initial N workes and save their pids to some table, then sleep 1 and see which of the PIDs are still alive. For those who are not - spawn next worker and save pid in place of the old one. Repeat until job is done.

The problem with counting with pgrep is that you will take in account the processess that may not be related with the script (any other user can run their own gzip, right?).
 

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POSIX_SPAWNATTR_GETSCHEDPOLICY(3)			   BSD Library Functions Manual 			 POSIX_SPAWNATTR_GETSCHEDPOLICY(3)

NAME
posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy, posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy -- get and set the spawn-schedpolicy attribute of a spawn attributes object LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <spawn.h> int posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy(const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attr, int *restrict schedpolicy); int posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy(posix_spawnattr_t *attr, int schedpolicy); DESCRIPTION
The posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy() function obtains the value of the spawn-schedpolicy attribute from the attributes object referenced by attr. The posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy() function sets the spawn-schedpolicy attribute in an initialized attributes object referenced by attr. The spawn-schedpolicy attribute represents the scheduling policy to be assigned to the new process image in a spawn operation (if POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER is set in the spawn-flags attribute). The default value of this attribute is unspecified. RETURN VALUES
The posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy() and posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy() functions return zero. SEE ALSO
posix_spawn(3), posix_spawnattr_destroy(3), posix_spawnattr_getschedparam(3), posix_spawnattr_init(3), posix_spawnattr_setschedparam(3), posix_spawnp(3) STANDARDS
The posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy() and posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
The posix_spawnattr_getschedpolicy() and posix_spawnattr_setschedpolicy() functions first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0. AUTHORS
Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> BSD
March 24, 2008 BSD
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