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  • Committer: tridge
  • Date: 2007-02-27 00:31:28 UTC
  • Revision ID: vcs-imports@canonical.com-20070227003128-8ea2470f908182c6
add example usage

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waitpid.sh
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#!/bin/sh
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# wait for a pid with given timeout
 
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# returns 1 if it timed out, 0 if the process exited itself
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waitforpid() {
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    pid=$1
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    timeout=$2 # in seconds
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        sleep 1;
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        wcount=`expr $wcount + 1`
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        if [ $wcount -eq $timeout ]; then
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            break;
 
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            return "1";
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        fi
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    done
 
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    return "0";
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}
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waitforpid $1 $2
 
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if `waitforpid $1 $2`; then
 
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    echo "process $1 exited"
 
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else
 
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    echo "process $1 timed out"
 
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fi