On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
> Scenario:
> I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0)
> When this task has finished I wish to be paged...
>
> In other words;
> Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one
> is still executing?
>
> Is this possible?
>
> e.g. a command sequence that might take a long time:
>
> $ echo >list.md5 ; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >>list.md5
> $ nice -n 19 cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp
>
>
> *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming task and then
> "append" the paging later.
>
> The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it
> - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for.
>
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden
$ echo > list.md5; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >> list.md5 2>&1 &
[1] 5060
$ wait %1; cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp
HTH,
Igor
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