Top "Task" questions

A task is an abstraction that is used to work with concurrency, it can denote operation that should be executed concurrently with the rest of a program.

Celery: How to ignore task result in chord or chain?

I'm using celery, I have several tasks which needed to be executed in order. For example I have this task: @…

python asynchronous task celery
Display the time it takes each vagrant ansible task to complete

I'm converting a vagrant provisioner from shell to ansible and I was wondering if there's any option to show the …

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How do task killers work?

The usefullness of task killer apps is debated, but I'm wondering: how do they actually work? How is it possible …

android task kill-process
How to make Gradle run tasks in certain order?

Let's say that I have created separate tasks for running integration and acceptance tests in my gradle build script. When …

gradle task automated-tests build-script
Kernel module that iterates over all tasks using depth first tree

So I know how to create a kernel and to iterate over the processes linearly by Simply including linux/sched.…

linux-kernel task depth-first-search
ansible ignore the run_once configuration on task

I am using Ansible and I want to run a task only once. I follow the documentation about how to …

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ant: ftp task failing due to NoClassDefFoundError

I have been following some example source code but I am getting an error upon executing the ftp task. Here …

ant ftp task build.xml
Why *not* change the priority of a ThreadPool (or Task) thread?

There are many places across the web and Stack Overflow where one is discouraged from changing the priority of a …

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vb.net - How to Declare new task as SUB with parameters

As you know we have a new syntax in vb.net with possibility to create inline tasks so we could …

vb.net parameters task declare
Activity stack ordering problem when launching application from Android app installer and from Home screen

For testing purposes only, I am allowing my app APK to be downloaded and installed via a URL. Once downloaded …

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