respawn: add seperate shell utility instead of running while loops

Technically, these are the same shell commands, but since they are run
by a separate shell, they are easier to predict and easier to kill.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/respawn b/contrib/respawn
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index 0000000..1b914ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/respawn
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+# POSIX shell variant for ubase respawn
+
+usage() {
+    printf 'usage: %s [-d N] cmd [args...]\n' "${0##*/}"
+    exit "${1:-0}"
+}
+
+die() { printf '%s\n' "$@" >&2; exit 1;}
+
+case "$1" in
+    -d) [ "$3" ] || usage 1
+        [ "$2" -gt 0 ] || die "Not a number: $2"
+        delay=$2; shift 2
+        ;;
+    --help|-h|'') usage ;;
+    -*) usage 1
+esac
+
+while :; do
+    "$@"
+    [ "$delay" ] && sleep "$delay"
+done