Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com> writes: > Or even better: make filter driver write its pid to pidfile, and then > "wait $(cat rot13-filter.pid)". That's what we do in lib-git-daemon.sh > (I think).
I am not sure if "wait"ing on a random process that is not a direct child is a reasonable thing to do, but I like the direction. Communicate with a pidfile and wait until "kill -0 $that_pid" fails, or something like that, would be clean enough.
