Questions tagged [forking]
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Reason of fork problems unclear
I have a Debian based Linux system. After some updates (not related to Debian core repos) the system had some leaking leading to forking problems after a couple of days for new spawned processes like ...
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WSL Linux /proc/task/children doesn't exist
I'm running WSL Ubuntu on Windows 10. I have a task to:
create an app that builds a small process tree in C++ (done)
watch tree through pstree (done, all processes are running, stopped by getchar()
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What is the difference between "screen -dm" and "screen -Dm"
I'm been looking for an explanation for the difference between screen's -dm and -Dm options. I know that both options are used to make the screen run in the background / detach it after creation. I've ...
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Measuring peak memory usage: equivalent of /usr/bin/time -v including child/forked processes
I have been making use of the /usr/bin/time -v construct for a while now in order to determine the peak RAM usage of programs that I create.
Lately I have been making some python programs that make ...
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How to attach background process to systemctl service's CGroup
let me explain a little bit more.
I have a service on CentOS 7 that launches a sh script. The script then forks to let's say 4 other child processes. If one dies, I want to launch it from another ...
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Fork A Repo via GitHub API by curl
How to fork a Repo via GitHub API?
I'm looking at GitHub Fork API doc at
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/forks/#create-a-fork
and I'm quite confused as how to do it.
Create a fork
Create ...
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How to kill bash fork bomb
Recently I unintentionally created and run a fork bomb in bash. It was a slow one, in comparison to other fork bombs, I had plenty of time to do something. But there were already several hundreds of ...
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How to get exit code of a subprocess?
So, I have process B. Typically, process B is called and ran entirely with the context of process A. Unfortunately, for some reason, process B has stopped running properly when called by A, but it ...
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who forks when the applications are double clicked on Linux?
So I know when in shell and I run an executable then shell forks it into a child process and later exec's to get the program and data memory of my executable. So if my shell is now closed/exited then ...
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Can't do proper git pull request
I'm new to GitHub and therefore I messed a lot with it, so I need some step-by-step help. Sorry for being annoying :/ Also, before I say anything, I'd have to clarify that I used only GitHub, because ...
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How and why is this string of text a fork bomb?
Found on a random chan board:
echo "I<RA('1E<W3t`rYWdl&r()(Y29j&r{,3Rl7Ig}&r{,T31wo});r`26<F]F;==" | uudecode
Somehow running this this results in an infinitely spawning process ...
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PHP: how to keep I/O accessible in parent after pcntl_fork()'s child has completed?
I'm using PHP and pcntl_fork(). The idea is that the parent forks and pauses for the child to complete; the child does a task then terminates; the parent can check the return code for the task or the ...
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How to deal with a memory-leaking fork bomb on Linux?
I know that a fork bomb can be prevented by limiting the number of processes of a single user, and memory leaking will not freeze my OS for Linux has OOM killer. But how about a memory-leaking fork ...
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Why creating a process is a two-step process (fork-exec)?
I'm studying Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" book and he's explaining that:
The reason for this two-step process is to allow the child to manipulate its file descriptors after the fork but ...
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When a parent uses fork, the child process is created in a continuous memory space?
When forking, the exact environment of the parent process gets copied. Is that space allocated in a random space in RAM or the parent and child processes are getting continuous RAM space (like array ...
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Easiest way to fork a nonGitHub git repo to a GitHub repo?
For example, I'd like to fork a GNU Savannah git repo, and use GitHub's pull request button to signal GNU Savannah that I'd like to submit a patch. Is this possible?
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Github merge PR forked repo into your own repo
I have forked an existing repo into my own repo. Whenever I do a pull request (in my repo), it automatically defaults to the origin repo, and not to the fork I created. How do I get github to default ...
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Are IceWeasel / IceCat just re-brandings, or are they actually different from Firefox / Thunderbird?
As we know, Firefox' branding (name, logo etc.) is non-free copyrighted, so some Linux distributions package (more-)fully-free versions.
However, I can't get a straight explanation on Wikipedia (here ...
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Fork processes in a script using different colors for each process output
I have a script that operates on 4 folders.
Because they are completely independent, I'm passing in the folder path to a function and then forking that function. It works, but the output to the ...
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Neutralize fork-bomb through ssh
I have access to a server through SSH (namely, it's our informatics server :) ) and ran a fork-bomb there (the bash one). Is there a way to neutralize it remotely? Just using ssh name@server does just ...
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How can I Resync a fork from original
I just forked a project in Github. I made modifications and sent a pull request. The owner merged my fork with the main project and after that he made some modifications. So for now my fork is not ...
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git cannot allocate memory - git svn rebase
I cannot run git svn rebase in my repository as I am getting:
Can't fork: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Git.pm line 1262
The output of free indicates I have plenty of free ...
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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 ...
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