Re: [Fink-users] dbus causing xterm to hang?

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Charles Lepple wrote:
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> 'grep -c' should be able to cope with empty input (returning 0), as  
> long as you are passing a regex (in this case, 'org.finkproject.dbus- 
> session'). Are you sure it isn't something else?

Well, I tried this: On 10.4.11, I run

   launchctl list | grep -c foo

It returns "0" eventually, but it can take a long time to do so, 
sometimes up to a minute.

This is not deterministic; sometimes it returns immediately. A simple 
"launchctl list" returns immediately every time, as does the command I 
proposed,

   (echo ""; launchctl list) | grep -c foo

Weird.

-- 
Martin