| Re: time events? [message #16748] |
Fri, 20 August 1999 00:00 |
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In article <37bcb731@mindmeld.idcomm.com>,
"John D. Sample" <sample@idcomm.com> writes:
> I'm using IDL widgets to launch other applications on a unix network of
> boxes using the SPAWN command.
>
> It would be nice to generate events automatically at certain times of the
> day. Alternatively, if the contents of a pipe could generate an event, that
> would work too. What I don't want to do is hard code a loop that
> continually reads a file or pipe, or checks the system time, and prevents
> the user from using other functions.
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> Specifically, I need a way to determine whether a SPAWNed job is done so I
> can have IDL launch another one automatically.
>
> Thanks. Chip
haven't tried. But there is a TIMER keyword to widget_control. One way to
check if your spawned command is through would be to SPAWN a ps | grep
command. As soon as you return an empty string your job is over. In a
more sophisticated version of this you could try to get hold of the process
ID when you start the job (e.g. something like echo $$ > tmpfile ) and
then do ps | grep `cat tmpfile` Then you could even spawn the same thing
several times simultanously.
Regards,
Martin
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