Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!john
From: john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: while true (was Re: Must UNIX be a memory hog?)
Keywords: while, /bin/true, /bin/false
Message-ID: <459@trigraph.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 20:20:07 GMT
References: <159@zebra.UUCP> <1608@auspex.auspex.com> <2@minya.UUCP> <1197@marvin.Solbourne.COM> <29237@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.utcs.UToronto.CA (John J. Chew)
Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <29237@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> 
  jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) writes:

[ while : ; do ... ; done ]

>Right; that's how I code my "while true" loops.  But what I haven't figured
>out is:  how do I optimize my "while false" loops?

Gee, that's obvious... you use an "until :" loop. :-)

John
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