Top "Process" questions

Wait for a process to finish

Is there any builtin feature in Bash to wait for a process to finish? The wait command only allows one …

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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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What resources are shared between threads?

Recently, I have been asked a question in an interview what's the difference between a process and a thread. Really, …

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How do I kill a process using Vb.NET or C#?

I have a scenario where I have to check whether user has already opened Microsoft Word. If he has, then …

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Get exit code of a background process

I have a command CMD called from my main bourne shell script that takes forever. I want to modify the …

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Check to see if python script is running

I have a python daemon running as a part of my web app/ How can I quickly check (using python) …

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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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How to examine processes in OS X's Terminal?

I’d like to view information for processes running in OS X. Running ps in the terminal just lists the …

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How can I get a process handle by its name in C++?

I'm trying to get the process handle of, say example.exe, so I can call TerminateProcess on it. How can …

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Xcode process launch failed: Security

I have been developing an app for 1 or 2 weeks now and just yesterday I have updated my iPhone 5S to …

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