Sleeping until a file exists

Dave Eisen dkeisen at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU
Sat Dec 22 05:15:09 AEST 1990

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Is there any convenient way for a process (on Xenix 2.3.2 if that's relevant)
to sleep on the event that a known (spool) directory gets modified by the 
creation of a file in that directory? 



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