On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 11:11:42PM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/02/2016 04:51 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> +timeout 1s bash -c "while [ \$(ps --ppid $pid |wc -l) -lt 2 ]; do sleep 0.1 ;done" \
> >
> > is "0.1" portable? :-)
>
> if one has timeout from coreutils, then it's likely that she also has sleep
> from there. Thus said, I'd rather worry about portability of using timeout
> rather than the "0.1" (if sleep fails, then nobody will care anyway). ;-)
Good point... I have added check for "timeout".
Karel
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