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How to use shared memory with Linux in C

I have a bit of an issue with one of my projects. I have been trying to find a well …

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How to kill a child process by the parent process?

I create a child process using a fork(). How can the parent process kill the child process if the child …

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fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

I tried installing Intel MPI Benchmark on my computer and I got this error: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable Then …

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How to make child process die after parent exits?

Suppose I have a process which spawns exactly one child process. Now when the parent process exits for whatever reason (…

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How to make parent wait for all child processes to finish?

I'm hoping someone could shed some light on how to make the parent wait for ALL child processes to finish …

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How to use execvp()

The user will read a line and i will retain the first word as a command for execvp. Lets say …

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The difference between fork(), vfork(), exec() and clone()

I was looking to find the difference between these four on Google and I expected there to be a huge …

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Differences between fork and exec

What are the differences between fork and exec?

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fork() and wait() with two child processes

I need to use the fork() and wait() functions to complete an assignment. We are modelling non-deterministic behaviour and need …

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Forking / Multi-Threaded Processes | Bash

I would like to make a section of my code more efficient. I'm thinking of making it fork off into …

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