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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Wait for one processes to complete in a shell script Post 302824663 by rafa_fed2 on Friday 21st of June 2013 09:25:16 AM
Old 06-21-2013
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
In this specific case, if bip.sh invokes BIP just before exiting, a ps loop looking for bip.sh would fail. The ps loop would have to be looking for BIP or whatever BIP might exec (or fork and exec) instead of looking for bip.sh.

The idea behind your approach is sound, but it requires intimate knowledge about what the grandchild is doing so that the tests can be made reliable for any particular application. Also, your approach only works if there can only be one instance of the process (or processes) started by the grandchild running on your system at a time.


So what can i do i can use sleep too but i dont want to use sleep as it would degrade performance.
 

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