Hello, i should finished this program, if anyone could tell me whats wrong... This is an optional university work, though i cant leave this nearly finished. I need to see where is my error :(
What my program should do.
The user must type "num_proc" ( number of children). The program creates a... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I often need to find the child processes of a parent process. There may be a string of 4-5. That is, PPID 884 spawns 890, which spawns 894, which spawns 1017. I'd like to be able to see all of them without having to type in a number of ps -ef commands.
Process groups and session ID's are... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
I'm trying to do a simple math expression ...but unsuccessfull :-(
Anyone can help me?
days=23
amount=`expr ${days} / 30 \* -125`
echo $amount
but as result i got 0 when i expect 95.833333
Another question...how i can limit only to two or three decimal fields?
Thanks in... (1 Reply)
Hi, I am a shell scripting newbie. I am in need of a shell script that will prepend the name of the parent directory to the child directory.
For example if the shell script called rename.sh is invoked with ">rename.sh /home/foobar/Simple" and the structure of the folder Simple is :
Simple... (7 Replies)
Hi, as I understand fork(), it makes a copy of the parent which becomes a child. But is there anyway to make three children for that one parent. So in other words, if I look up the getppid() of the children, I want them to have the same value??
Thanks in advance to any help! (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have been searching all day for a nice solution to this problem.
I have three scripts. A start script, a child script and a stop script.
Script A (scripta.sh)
Its Child Script B (scriptb.sh)
Script C (kill_process.sh $PID)
Script A correctly traps the kill command sent from... (6 Replies)
Greetings everyone, I need a bit of help in solving the following problem:
I'm given an array of numbers and I have to compute the sum of the array elements using n processes, and the inter process communication has to be done with pipes(one pipe, to be exact).
I managed to solve the problem... (14 Replies)
Hi, I want to display the process tree of a given PID, however, I don't want to see other children of the ancestors that don't reach the current PID.
My goal is, from the tree result, i have to fetch a particular parent process by keyword, and if any other children from parents have the same... (2 Replies)