Doug writes: > While you may think its terribly inefficient, it isn't really. A fancy > "wait" function is just polling anyway, you're just making it overt. You > also have the ability to have proga and progb only touch the file if they > complete successfully.
Have each of them check for a completion file when they complete successfully. If it exists remove it and start progc. If not create a completion file and exit (there is a possible race condition here). Both should be started from the same script, of course, which should handle the completion file, errors and cleanup. No need to modify the programs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
