wait4 - proposed new program

2003-08-14 Thread Martin von Gagern
Hello! I'm proposing a little program, let's call it "wait4", maybe to one day become part of the coreutils. Basically that thing should monitor files listed as arguments and terminate successfully as soon as one is changed. For example: while wait4 program.c *.h; do make program && ./program; d

Re: wait4 - proposed new program

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Martin von Gagern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought perhaps it should be part of coreutils. What do you think? wait4 sounds like a nice program to have, but wouldn't it be more at home in FAM itself? Or perhaps fileschanged (see below)? > BTW: Do you know anything like this around? files