Re: Is there any mutex/semaphore mechanism in shell scripts?

2009-05-21 Thread jjjaime
This reference was very interesting for my purposes. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#advanced I can achieve it with: jobpid=$! and wait $jobpid -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-there-any-mutex-semaphore-mechanism-in-shell-scripts--tp23641994p23658836.html

Is there any mutex/semaphore mechanism in shell scripts?

2009-05-21 Thread jjjaime
I would like to execute some functions in parallel, but the last method has to wait until the first 2 functions have finished. The script is: FUNCTION_1() { ... } FUNCTION_2() { ... } FUNCTION_3() { ... } FUNCTION_1 & FUNCTION_2 FUNCTION_3 So, to speed up the execution of the script, I want FUN