[ILUG] real time shell question...

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:25:34PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > Paul J Collins said:

ok, these are all good, so i think i'll go with:

  for test in `foo -h | awk '{print $1}'`; do
    foo $test &
    foopid=$!

    secs=360
    while [ $secs -gt 0 ] && kill -0 $foopid; do
	sleep 1
	secs=`expr $secs - 1`
    done

    if kill -0 $foopid ; then
      kill -15 $foopid
    fi

    if wait $foopid; then
	# tell someone that something bad happened.
    fi
  done

wait - here's a problem.  the wait isn't getting the status.  hm.

kevin

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