RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 10:36 AM 4/19/2004, you wrote:
>Barry Buchbinder Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:56:47 -0400
>>>>> How about the following?
>>>>> $ cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for
>
>Tom Roche Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:01 PM
>>>> I've never run windows' shell from bash, but that does the job.
>
>Larry Hall 04/18/2004 07:12 PM
>>> [For 'wait n',] 'n' is a proc id.  See 'man bash'.
>
>arrgghh: I tried "{info, man} wait".
>
>Buchbinder, Barry 04/19/2004 10:03:00 AM:
>> (at least on XP) if you just start the program without using
>> cygstart or putting it in the background with &, the shell just
>> waits for it to finish.
>
>I'm not sure if the problem is that
>
>* I'm on 2k
>
>* the program being run is java-based
>
>but bash does not stop.


Clearly, whatever your program is, it effectively runs a separate process,
otherwise you wouldn't see the problem you do (as Barry points out).  It's
not strictly related to the O/S or the programming language. 

I think we've covered this rather off-topic subject well enough.  I'd like
to suggest that we end the thread here unless something Cygwin-specific 
surfaces.



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