waitproc

This historical project is now archived. Please use the waitpid(1) tool provided by util-linux 2.39 instead.

Wait for (any) process on the system to exit

The waitproc program is designed to expand on the limitations of the wait(1) program, by allowing you to wait for a process which is not a child of the current shell to exit. It is otherwise designed to be mostly compatible with the interface of wait, except that it can only wait for a single process to exit. As well, some useful extensions have been added, such as support for timeouts.

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Announcements

Version 1.0 released

Mar 25, 2011

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kepstin

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This is the initial release of the waitproc tool. Download it from the Github Release With the SHA-1 checksum: 68fa23ee77abef48552ab9d82819fa9fece36f2b waitproc-1.0.tar.gz

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Dependencies

waitproc only runs on Linux systems currently. It certainly may be possible to run it on Solaris or BSD, but it could require some porting work. Please contact me if you try! Other than that, you’ll need popt.

Install

Installation is quite simple. Your standard:

./configure
make
make install

will get you up and running quickly.

License

waitproc is currently licensed under the GPL version 2, or (at your option) any later version of the GPL.

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