[WHIRR-474] Add functions that can be used as basic distributed synchronisation primitives in bash scripts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Andrei Savu
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 14/Jan/12 15:55
• Updated: 09/Oct/12 10:00
• Resolved: 12/Feb/12 07:08

Description

I'm think about things like: wait_for_port, wait_for_http_response, wait_for_tcp_response etc. The Hadoop Datanode can then use wait_for_port to wait for the Namenode.