Top "Background-process" questions

A background process is a computer process that runs "behind the scenes" (i.e. in the background) and without user intervention.

Sending a process to the background and returning control to my shell

I am programming a shell for my CS class and part of the project involves running a process in the …

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Spawn a background process in Ruby on Windows?

I am basically asking the same question as Spawn a background process in Ruby, except I need to spawn a …

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Periodic background synchronization

Im quite new to iOS programming and now want to implement a periodic background synchronization to synchronize my server data …

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What are differences between JobIntentService and IntentService?

I do not understand what difference between those two APIs. I mean when to use the first one. Why is …

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dismissing Progress Dialog

I have a situation where I am loading a bunch of images. During this process, I am trying to show …

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How to implement background processing for ASP.Net MVC website in a shared hosting environment?

I am developing my first web application using ASP.Net MVC, and I am in a situation where I would …

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EventBus : Activity does not receive event when app is in the background

I'm using EventBus to communicate between Activity and Service. Today I got a problem and don't know why. I have …

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Run atexit() when python process is killed

I have a python process which runs in background, and I would like it to generate some output only when …

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How to return to bash prompt after printing output from backgrounded function?

How can I return to my bash prompt automatically after printing output from a function that was put in the …

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Executing Javascript in background using Phonegap

I've created an application that will need to fire Javascript events every "X" minutes. I'm using phone gap build to …

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