Implementing infinite wait in shell scripting

Question

This may sound trivial, but I\'m pretty sure this question hasn\'t been asked, or at least I can\'t find it.

I\'m looking for a way to construct an infinite wait

Answer 1

SIGTERM sent to a process is delivered by the kernel to the process whether it is sleeping or not.

Try experimenting, maybe like this (bash example)

sleep 20 &
kill $! && fg