the syncmail script

[Bill Nottingham]

Mike McGrath (mmcgrath at redhat.com) said: 
> /me wonders if this might work:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> message() {
>     echo "Its not done yet.  Chill";
> }
> 
> echo "I take a while to complete"
> # sleep 5 would be replaced with the syncmail script
> sleep 5 &
> pid=$!
> while ps $pid > /dev/null
> do
>     trap message INT
>     sleep .2
> done

Wouldn't that still have a (minimal) race window where it could
be interrupted?

Bill