Waiting for 'shell'

[Warren Samples]

On 11/01/2011 06:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote:

>
> I just looked back at the original post.  If I understand correctly, the
> problem is not seeing when shell completes, but to let the user know there
> is backgrounded activity while shell is still processing, and so they don't
> think the app has locked up.
>
> ˜Roger


Yes, and the progression eventually involved an alternative which which 
would necessitate some clever method to determine when to stop showing 
the progress indicator because the process had finished. Therefore:


 >> >  Oh cool. Yep, that could be easily used as an indication that the
 >> > launched process has completed. That or ps would both work on mac 
 >> > or linux.

It does make sense :)

Warren