RE: parallel run-parts?

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 21-Apr-99 Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there anything like run-parts that would run all the scripts at the same
> time, and then wait for all of them to finish?
> 
> I wouldn't mind having most of my ip-up.d run together - I suspect there's
> a lot of time spent idle waiting for protocol negotiation to go through...
> 
> 

None I am aware of.  However this would be a (fairly) easy task.

<pseudo code>
make list of programs to run
while (list)
   fork() and exec(program)
clean-up

if no one else jumps on this, remind me in a few weeks (classes are winding
down and I should be doing school work not reading this list).