Re: mars has strange behaviour -- how to package?

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
>     echo -n "Waiting for DHCP to come up...  "
>     count=60
>     while ! test -e /tmp/dhcp-up && test $count != 0; do
> 	sleep 1
> 	count=`expr $count - 1`
>     done
>     if test -e /tmp/dhcp-up; then
> 	echo "done."
>     else
> 	echo "failed."

I dunno about dhcp coming up, but when waiting for something to
go away, it's better to wait on the pid.

Something like:

	while kill -0 $pid; do sleep 1; done

-- 
Raul


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