Is there a command for Unix which can detach processfromconsole and wait until its finish?

[John Mills]

Sergey, Freebies -

> sergey dyshel wrote:

> > I have one problem with '.xinitrc' file. I need to run
> > IceWM, detach it from console and wait until IceWM
> > exits. I know about 'detach' utility for Unix which
> > runs process, detaches it but doesn't wait. So when I
> > place "exec detach icewm" in the end of my '.xinitrc'
> > X server shuts down immediately after starting icewm
> > which isn't what I want. Is there a programm like
> > 'detach' which does't exit until detached process is finished?

Excuse me if I missed the point, but here is the tail end of a typical 
'xinitrc' from my Linux box. You can see that it starts a number of 
clients, then 'exec's the window manager. Is that what you had in mind?

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if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
    exec $HOME/.Xclients
elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
    exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
else
       # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
       # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
       xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
       xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
       if [ -x /usr/bin/netscape -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ]; 
then
               netscape /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
       fi
       if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ]; then
               exec fvwm2
       else
               exec twm
       fi
fi
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 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu