All articles tagged #os-process

A looooong one this time, so straight to the point! First, we'll discuss the Linux processes trivia and then review the following scenarios, as usually, with some code examples:

awaiting a child process termination;
awaiting a grandchild process termination;
catching the parent process termination.

How to on starting processes (mostly in Linux)

January 30, 2018 (Updated: August 19, 2021)

Linux / Unix,Programming

Do you want to run an executable file from your program? Or execute a shell command programmatically? Or maybe just parallelize your code? Have you read a lot of information regarding execve() functions family and fork() but still have a mess in your head? Then this article is for you.