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From: philw@pla... philw@pla...
Subject: No subject
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 23:15:29 -0500

>What's the recommended way to go about coding modules that have to fork
>and wait and that don't stomp on each other?

There is now a wait file /proc that allows this. Which
does some really cool things (rob said this). You can
wait for anything based on file permission regardless
of who started what.