[patch] add pwait utility

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Nov 7 13:01:44 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:28:32AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:24:46 +0100
> Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I propose adding a small new utility to /usr/bin: pwait. Similar to the
> > Solaris utility of the same name, it waits for any process to terminate.
> > 
> 
> Why not /bin so it can be used before /usr is mounted?
And it seems to make sense to add this functionality to pkill/pgrep
binary, creating another hardlink to it.
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