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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello... And thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me on my question! I've been doing a lot of reading to try and find my answer... But I haven't had any luck
What I'm trying to understand is where a child process inherits global environment variables from? I understand the exec()... (2 Replies)
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2. Programming
Hi All,
I have a program for class that needs to do the following:
1. Print the directory entries from the current directory using ncurses
2. Provide a prompt next to each directory entry and allow the user to enter commands that may or may not be about the file
3. Execute those commands in... (1 Reply)
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3. Programming
Hello everybody.I want to make clear that i am not going to ask from anybody to build my asignement but i have a big problem. I can't seem to find anywhere ONE good example on C about what i am trying to do:wall:.I think it is simple. All i ask is one example, even a link is fine.
So, i want to... (1 Reply)
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4. Programming
I writing a program that forks three times but only on the parent process. The three children processes then produces output in order. 1, 2, 3. I am confused on how to do this. I have tried multiple if and else if statements but the output does not come out right. How should I go about doing this? (1 Reply)
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5. Programming
Hi everyone:
I'm developing a dynamic library for notifications, this library is used for a daemon that i've programmed, when something goes wrong the library should send an email to an administrator, but since sending an email is a non-vital process then it can fail (it should work as an... (4 Replies)
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6. Programming
Assume we have an application built on *nix that uses fork()...then the processes procedure is going to act as follow:
X is considered a parent process (first click on application)
Y is considered a child process of X (second click on application)
Z is considered a child process of Y (third... (6 Replies)
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7. Programming
Hello experts,
I am using fork() in my code but I am confused which output comes first child or parent?
I did the following code .My book shows parent first but my linux shows child first.Can anyone tell me why?
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
int pid;
printf("I am original process with pid... (5 Replies)
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8. Programming
Hi everybody,
I wanna write a code to understand how fork works.
my target
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-Parent creates a file(called temp) and writes into this file "1".Then it closes the file.
-Then parent creates a child and wait until execution of this child ends.
-Then child opens the same... (3 Replies)
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9. Programming
Hello all.
I'm developing a filetransfer application, which is supposed to work sort of like dcc, with multiple transfers etc. Now i wonder what the best way to manage the transfers is. Should i fork() for each new transfer, hogging loads of memory or use pthreads? Maybe I can use select to see... (0 Replies)
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10. Programming
When executing this simple program:
#include <unistd.h>
void main()
{
int f;
printf("\n Parent procces ID=%d\n",getpid());
f=fork();
if(f==0)
{
printf("\n Child process ID=%d father=%d\n",getpid(),getppid());
}
... (2 Replies)
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