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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Sleeping until a file exists
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Date: 21 Dec 90 18:15:09 GMT
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Is there any convenient way for a process (on Xenix 2.3.2 if that's relevant)
to sleep on the event that a known (spool) directory gets modified by the 
creation of a file in that directory? 



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