I have tried to fix as many as issues I can that has been pointed out by @alister. In this version of the reminder program the parent will exit after fork. The pid of the child that calls the xterm is written into a file which is used to kill the child when needed. And the best thing I got no warnings!! Happly with that
Now I will try and implement the second approach in which I put the process in background and try to kill the child using it. i have no idea how I am going to do that. First off I will just try to make the parent a background process. Will figure out the rest along the way.
If I want to write program that spread the work to its child process so that each process compute some task what should I do?
The objective of my program is to fill in the table which (10*10) in dimension and each column is filled with the fibonacci value of i+j (i mean current row and j mean... (1 Reply)
Dear Experts
Why we always hear that unix operating system is Multi User and Multi task. What does these two means. I have looked at some books and documents but couldn't find aclear explenation. Can we say Windows operating system is also multi user and multi task??
Thanks for your help in... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Am supposed to use message queues to send and receive messages between the processes. when i was working on that i realised that the message qid and the message queue related data should be maintained in a shared memory so that it can be accessed by all the processes. Could anybody refer... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to compile the following code:
/************** Begin <test.c> ***************/
/*
* Compiled with: gcc -Wall -o test test.c
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("I'm process %d, son of %d \n", getpid(), getppid());
printf("Hello \n");... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to compile the following code:
/************** Begin <test.c> ***************/
/*
* Compiled with: gcc -Wall -o test test.c
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("I'm process %d, son of %d \n", getpid(), getppid());
... (5 Replies)
I read that 'Any single program that can run as multiple processes can benefit from OpenMosix: "The GIMP" photo editor and the "kandel" fractal generator are known to do this.
Are there other load-balancing clusters that do support multi-process applications? (1 Reply)
I have a unix directory where a million of small text files getting accumulated every week.
As of now there is a shell batch program in place which merges all the files in this directory into a single file and ftp to other system.
Previously the volume of the files would be around 1 lakh... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem where I need to make this input:
nameRow1a,text1a,text2a,floatValue1a,FloatValue2a,...,floatValue140a
nameRow1b,text1b,text2b,floatValue1b,FloatValue2b,...,floatValue140b
look like this output:
nameRow1a,text1b,text2a,(floatValue1a - floatValue1b),(floatValue2a -... (4 Replies)
I am trying to write a large X app. I have successfully modified my xorg.conf to setup 4 monitors on an NVIDIA Quatro5200. I am trying to modify a simple hello world application to open a window on three of the four monitors. depending on the changes to loop the window creation section and event... (2 Replies)
hi
I want to call a lot of links with the post method
What to do to speed it up??
####This method is slow
#!/bin/bash
func2() {
index1=0
while read line ; do
index1=$(($index1+1))
url=$line
done < tmp/url1.txt
} (10 Replies)
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tcl_waitpid
Tcl_DetachPids(3) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_DetachPids(3)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
Tcl_DetachPids, Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs, Tcl_WaitPid - manage child processes in background
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
Tcl_DetachPids(numPids, pidPtr)
Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs()
Tcl_Pid
Tcl_WaitPid(pid, statusPtr, options)
ARGUMENTS
int numPids (in) Number of process ids contained in the array pointed to by pidPtr.
int *pidPtr (in) Address of array containing numPids process ids.
Tcl_Pid pid (in) The id of the process (pipe) to wait for.
int *statusPtr (out) The result of waiting on a process (pipe). Either 0 or ECHILD.
int options (in) The options controlling the wait. WNOHANG specifies not to wait when checking the process.
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Tcl_DetachPids and Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs provide a mechanism for managing subprocesses that are running in background. These procedures
are needed because the parent of a process must eventually invoke the waitpid kernel call (or one of a few other similar kernel calls) to
wait for the child to exit. Until the parent waits for the child, the child's state cannot be completely reclaimed by the system. If a
parent continually creates children and doesn't wait on them, the system's process table will eventually overflow, even if all the children
have exited.
Tcl_DetachPids may be called to ask Tcl to take responsibility for one or more processes whose process ids are contained in the pidPtr
array passed as argument. The caller presumably has started these processes running in background and does not want to have to deal with
them again.
Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs invokes the waitpid kernel call on each of the background processes so that its state can be cleaned up if it has
exited. If the process has not exited yet, Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs does not wait for it to exit; it will check again the next time it is
invoked. Tcl automatically calls Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs each time the exec command is executed, so in most cases it is not necessary for
any code outside of Tcl to invoke Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs. However, if you call Tcl_DetachPids in situations where the exec command may
never get executed, you may wish to call Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs from time to time so that background processes can be cleaned up.
Tcl_WaitPid is a thin wrapper around the facilities provided by the operating system to wait on the end of a spawned process and to check a
whether spawned process is still running. It is used by Tcl_ReapDetachedProcs and the channel system to portably access the operating sys-
tem.
KEYWORDS
background, child, detach, process, wait
TclTcl_DetachPids(3)