Re: Shell, wait for outside process?

[Norman Palardy <npalardy@great-white-software.com>]

On 29-Jun-08, at 8:25 PM, Sean Arney wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>     I have a shell process that I am launching an executable - so  
> far so
> good, but I need to wait for that operation to complete before  
> doing some
> more things.  Any suggestions how to do that?  A timer is not really
> appropriate since it involves some user input.
You could make the shell command wait til it completes

Watch the process id of the program you launched until it disappears  
and then quit the shell
Do this synchronously

Or pass the PID back to REALbasic and then you can spin your wheels  
in RB waiting for that process to terminate


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