Installation

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macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install wait_on

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MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install wait_on

MacPorts ports tree · sysutils/wait_on/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Provides shell scripts with access to kqueue(3)

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

wait_on

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

`wait_on` is a small FreeBSD-oriented command that exposes file and directory change notifications to shell scripts. It lets scripts sleep until a watched path changes instead of polling in a loop.

Projektgeschichte

The FreeBSD manual page gives the clearest project history: `wait_on` was written by Andrew Stevenson in January 2002 under FreeBSD 4.4. Its design is tied directly to kqueue, the BSD kernel event-notification facility that had recently made file, directory, and descriptor events available without busy polling.

Wie es verwendet wird

The command waits on one or more files or directories and exits when a requested event occurs. The manual gives examples such as watching a mailbox for writes, waiting for files to arrive in an incoming FTP directory, or using `-i` and `-t` so a script can tell which watched path changed or timed out.

Internally, `wait_on` uses kqueue's vnode notifications, including events for writes, extension, deletion, renames, link-count changes, attribute changes, and revocation. That makes it a compact bridge between shell scripting and kernel event delivery on systems with kqueue.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

This is a classic small Unix package: one command, one system primitive, and a clean scripting use case. It is historically interesting because it predates the later wave of cross-platform file-watcher tools and shows early BSD users solving shell automation without periodic `stat` polling.

Zeitleiste

January 2002: `wait_on` was written under FreeBSD 4.4 by Andrew Stevenson.
2000s onward: the command remained useful as a shell-level wrapper around kqueue file and directory events.

Related projects

The closest related primitive is kqueue itself. In the broader file-watching family, `wait_on` overlaps conceptually with inotify-based Linux tools and higher-level cross-platform watchers, but it stays intentionally close to the FreeBSD kernel interface.

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Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: yellow

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Risikoklassifikator

yellow Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · runtime

Warum

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Signale

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Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 11 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`wait_on`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-08-04

Manager-Version1.1

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/wait_on/

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:wait_on
Version	1.1
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/wait_on
Homepage	https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/wait_on/
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/wait_on/
Lizenz	BSD-4-Clause
Quellarchiv	https://pkg.freebsd.org/ports-distfiles/wait_on-1.1.tar.gz
Build-Abhängigkeiten	bmake
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	wait_on
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Requirements	macos
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

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MacPorts95%

wait_on

sudo port install wait_on

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Abgeglichen nach: Wait On

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/wait_on/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

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Combined YAML source

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combined/wait_on.yml

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