On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Adam Miller<maxamillion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Murilo Opsfelder > Araujo<mopsfelder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> >> how can I run a command in background inside spec file? >> > <snip> > > I have to ask because my curiosity is killing me.... what's the use > case for that? Un use case could be in the %post section, if you want to run a postinstall of a (bad) commercial package and you want to put in a shell a sigalarm (something like this) for not to wait forever if something go wrong. I have done this in the past IIRC. But it is only an example, for probably a rare use case. Cheers > > -Adam > > > -- > http://maxamillion.googlepages.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list