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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting New to UNIX like 2 weeks of study only Post 302922708 by bakunin on Monday 27th of October 2014 09:58:51 PM
Old 10-27-2014
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Originally Posted by Gmoney93079
then if name is equal to name do nothing, but if name is != name do something
We have undestood that, but: "if name is equal to name" is true regardless of the value of "name", so the condition is moot. You could have written "if 1 equals 1" for the same effect.

For any if-else-decision to make sense there must be a condition which is sometimes true, sometimes not true. If it is always true or always not true, then you do not need a condition at all. If i say to you "if the time is in the evening then go to sleep, otherwise get up" there is a condition (what the time is) and sometimes this will be "in the evening", sometimes not, resulting in "get up" sometimes and in "go to sleep" otherwise.

What you do is "if the time is any time then get up" - but you do not need to refer to the time at all in such a case, because its value would be irrelevant anyways.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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WAIT_EVENT_INTERRUPT(9) 					   Driver Basics					   WAIT_EVENT_INTERRUPT(9)

NAME
wait_event_interruptible_exclusive_locked_irq - sleep until a condition gets true SYNOPSIS
wait_event_interruptible_exclusive_locked_irq(wq, condition); ARGUMENTS
wq the waitqueue to wait on condition a C expression for the event to wait for DESCRIPTION
The process is put to sleep (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) until the condition evaluates to true or a signal is received. The condition is checked each time the waitqueue wq is woken up. It must be called with wq.lock being held. This spinlock is unlocked while sleeping but condition testing is done while lock is held and when this macro exits the lock is held. The lock is locked/unlocked using spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq functions which must match the way they are locked/unlocked outside of this macro. The process is put on the wait queue with an WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE flag set thus when other process waits process on the list if this process is awaken further processes are not considered. wake_up_locked has to be called after changing any variable that could change the result of the wait condition. The function will return -ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by a signal and 0 if condition evaluated to true. COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 3.10 June 2014 WAIT_EVENT_INTERRUPT(9)
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