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Ulm's Oberon System:
onswait


NAME

onswait - wait until a given path becomes valid within ONS

SYNOPSIS

onswait [-a authfile] path

DESCRIPTION

onswait blocks until the given path becomes valid within the Oberon name space (ONS). Its implementation is based upon PathConditions. If successful, onswait exits with 0. In case of failures (e.g. one of the path components does not have the domain capability), a non-zero exit code is returned.

Following option is supported:

-a authfile
specifies a file containing a persistent object of type Shards.Lid that is to be used to access the path.

ENVIRONMENT

UnixNames is used to find the shared Oberon name space. This module considers the environment variable ONS_ROOT to find the Oberon name server.

SEE ALSO

onsmkdir
create a directory within the Oberon name space
onsshut
shutdown a service that is associated with a control object
onsstat
report the status of a node

Edited by: borchert, last change: 2004/09/20, revision: 1.2, converted to HTML: 2004/09/20

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