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Git branch for instances of a website?
I'm working in a couple of websites, both websites needs almost the same code except for some changes in images and css, or settings.
I'm just finished to read the chapter of branchs of Pro Git book ...
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How do I fork a process that doesn't die when shell exits?
If I run emacs from the shell:
$ emacs foo &
and then kill that shell, emacs dies.
How can I run a command so that it will not die when the shell dies?
I found references to nohup, but that ...
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Linux / Perl - What happens when a process is forked?
I've read about fork and from what I understand, the process is cloned but which process? The script itself or the process that launched the script?
For example:
I'm running rTorrent on my machine ...
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Any way to simulate Process.fork() on Windows?
I need to use a library that seems to be making the assumption that Process.fork() is available.
On Windows it is not.
I tried installing Cygwin with the idea that it might simulate this.
Didn't ...
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NetBSD, OpenBSD, *BSD and FreeBSD compared
I recall reading a comparison of NetBSD and FreeBSD a few years back, and in 2000 (okay many) it looked like NetBSD forked processes better, while FreeBSD threaded better, and so, for Apache 1 NetBSD ...
