sh script difficulties (running parallel functions)

[Andy Harrison]

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On 11/1/07, David Naylor  wrote:
>   # !!! Somehow wait for over workers to finish before continuing !!!
> }
>
> #Finished
>
> Furthermore, how can signals be handled such that the signals get
> accumulated and once all the other workers have finished the signals get
> passed on (appropriately)


One simplistic way of doing something like that is to make each worker
process write a file out to disk upon completion.  Then have a while
loop that sleeps for a minute and then checks for the existence of
that file and if it finds it, execute other commands.

Probably not the cleanest method, but I think you'll find that
handling forks and signals in a shell script is more trouble than it's
worth.

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Andy Harrison
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