> A couple of examples: [snip] > > xsetroot -solid black > xemacs& > kvt& > icewm& > wait $! > run_my_logout_cleaner > > First xsetroot is run. The script will wait until it has finished. > that shouldn't take long time and afterwards it continues to put > xemacs and kvt in the background. Then icewm is run in the > background. Weird, shouldn't we wait for that. Oh yes, we finish > with wait $!. $! is the PID of the last process started in the > background and wait just stands there, waiting for the process > given as argument to finish. Therefore this .xsession will also > wait for the windowmanager to finish. Then it will go on > to execute a program called run_my_logout_cleaner. This will supposedly > do something clever and when it's finished it will return. When > it has done so, the script has come to an end, thereby terminating > our X session.
so what do we gain from this compared to xsetroot -solid black xemacs& kvt& icewm run_my_logout_cleaner ? In other words, what use has this wait? Just wondering. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
