how to run the children script exclusively

[hokky]

Hi guys,

Here's part of my script :

loadData(){
     ...
}

#main program
while true
do
     loadData
     sleep 600
done

But I don't know when the loadData finish, so I don't want my script do another loadData while previous loadData hasn't finished, so the idea is :

a) I want to run another loadData 600 seconds after the loadData finish or ..
b) if loadData takes more than 600 seconds, wait another 600 seconds.

Any idea how to do that guys ??

Thank you very much

 

[feherke]

Hi

That way the [tt]sleep[/tt] will be executed only after the [tt]loadData[/tt] function exits. So no, the [tt]loadData[/tt] function's runs will not overlap.

The problem you described would occur only if [tt]loadData[/tt] is run in background :

while true
do
     loadData [red][b]&[/b][/red]
     sleep 600
done

Is [tt]loadData[/tt] sent to background ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[hokky]

no, Thanks... I'll try it next week..