[patch] add pwait utility
Gabor Kovesdan
gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 7 21:17:15 UTC 2009
Jilles Tjoelker escribió:
>> And it seems to make sense to add this functionality to pkill/pgrep
>> binary, creating another hardlink to it.
>>
>
> Hmm, pwait's syntax is incompatible: it takes pids (pkill says: use
> kill) and the -v option does something totally different.
>
That's not an issue. You can declare
extern char *__progname;
and use it to parse the command line arguments in a different way. Of
course, it only makes sense if pkill/pgrep has some inner functionality
you can make use of to avoid duplication.
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