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Dining Philosophers in C using fork()

I wrote a C program for the Dining Philosophers Problem using pthread some time ago and am now trying to …

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How does copy-on-write work in fork()?

I want to know how copy-on-write happens in fork(). Assuming we have a process A that has a dynamical int …

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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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Create a daemon with double-fork in Ruby

What is the proper way to create a well-behaved Unix or Linux daemon in Ruby? What is the definition of …

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C++ best way to launch another process?

Its been a while since I've had to do this and in the past I've used "spawn" to create processes. …

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How to make my nodejs app serve multiple users?

I am implementing a very basic website using nodejs, and expressjs framework. The idea is that the user enters the …

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How many child_processes should I fork() in node.js?

My question is quite simple. though, it may require different variable to be answered (i guess) I'm playing around with …

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Composer - PHP Warning: proc_open(): fork failed - Cannot allocate memory

I have a problem with composer, it has always worked well but now it doesn't want to... Here is the …

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Debugging Node.js processes with cluster.fork()

I've got some code that looks very much like the sample in the Cluster documentation at http://nodejs.org/docs/…

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fork() branches more than expected?

Consider the following piece of code: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.…

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