scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) (10/19/89)
I would like to thank Rob Peck for providing a workable solution to my
orginal question about having a script wait for completion of an event or
multiple events. Instead of using a file as a signal and having the parent
script do a wait-loop I used a pipe as a kind of semaphore. The parent
script once it has started the others as background tasks does a type pipe:a
(or whatever pipe name desginated). This causes the parent to halt until
somebody writes to that pipe.
One question I do have about this method: does the Amiga OS waste any CPU
resources while that script is trying to read the pipe?
Thanks again Rob for the quick reply.
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