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From: paul@devon.lns.pa.us (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Sleeping until a file exists
Message-ID: <1990Dec25.204447.19323@devon.lns.pa.us>
Date: 25 Dec 90 20:44:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.181509.25419@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Lancaster, PA
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dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:

>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? 

Do you mean "sleep until the directory gets modified, then do something"
or "do something until the directory gets modified, then sleep?"

- paul

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