wait4path/wait4path.1

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  22 .Dd 14 December, 2013
  23 .Dt WAIT4PATH 1
  24 .Os Darwin
  25 .Sh NAME
  26 .Nm wait4path
  27 .Nd wait for given path to show up in the namespace
  28 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  29 .Nm
  30 .Ao Ar path Ac
  31 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  32 The
  33 .Nm
  34 program simply checks to see if the given path exists, and if so, it exits.
  35 Otherwise, it sleeps until the mount table is updated and checks again. The
  36 program will loop indefinitely until the path shows up in the file system
  37 namespace.