From: "Dmitry V. Sabanin" <sdmitry@...>
Date: 2004-06-01T02:32:45+09:00
Subject: Re: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until condition is met"

On Monday 31 May 2004 18:53, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2004-05-31, Dmitry V. Sabanin <sdmitry@lrn.ru> wrote:
> > $counter = 0
> > def cond_met
> >   $counter += 1
> >   $counter > 1 ? true : false
> > end
> >
> > # algo itself, services could be an array of commands to execute
> > services = %w| httpd squid sendmail |.reverse
> > begin
> >   serv = services.pop
> >   system "echo /etc/init.d/#{serv} stop"
> > end until cond_met
>
> What's the sense in stopping only two services listed in an array which has
> more elements than the two?
It's just an emulation of how umount /usr will possibly work, probably it will unmount 
partition before everything is killed. I should be more clear next time

> Bye,
> phil

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