On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 10:29 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> I know there's a lot of history around the syncmail script, does anyone
> know why we don't just stick a & at the end and fork it?
>
> I'm refering to the ctl+c to skip notifications issue.
>From what I remember, we tried this and it didn't work
/me wonders if this might work:
#!/bin/bash
message() {
echo "Its not done yet. Chill";
}
echo "I take a while to complete"
# sleep 5 would be replaced with the syncmail script
sleep 5 &
pid=$!
while ps $pid > /dev/null
do
trap message INT
sleep .2
done