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How to timeout waitpid without killing the child?

I am aware of the many questions regarding waitpid and timeouts but they all cover this by killing the child …

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Multiple pipe implementation using system call fork() execvp() wait() pipe() - it is simply not working

I need to implement my shell that handles multiple pipe commands. For example I need to be able to handle …

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wait() function in Ubuntu

I am learning Processes and their behavior in Ubuntu, but I am a bit confused in wait(). So my questions …

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fork/exec/waitpid issue

I'm trying to determine whether an execution failed by checking the result of waitpid(). However, even when I run a …

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Reaping child processes from Perl

I have a script that spawns a set of children. The parent must wait for each of the children to …

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How to make waitpid block the loop

The following code runs 2 children, who will wait for 10 seconds and terminate. The parent is sitting in a loop, waiting …

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Can this C code create zombie processes?

I am wondering if the following code can create zombies: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #…

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When and why should you use WNOHANG with waitpid()?

I'm currently in a systems programming class and we went over the wait system call functions today. I was reading …

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About wait() and waitpid()

So I wrote this code on C. I created a father, that has two child processes, and one becomes zombie. …

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