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The fork() function is the Unix/Linux/POSIX way of creating a new process by duplicating the calling process.

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Catch unhandled exception in NodeJs child process

My NodeJs app forks 10 child processes on the start. In every child process I have the next code: process.on('unhandledRejection', (reason, promise) => { log.error('Unhandled Rejection at:', ...
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Explain the behavior of parent and child processes

So, recently I have been learning about processes, operating systems, etc. I have come across a problem that I simply can't wrap my head around. Here is the code to the said problem #include <stdio....
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What should be pushed to a new remote when forking manually? [closed]

I need to fork an existing repository to a new remote. What should be pushed to the new repository? $ git remote add relocated http://new... $ git push --all relocated $ git push --tags relocated ...
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Is there a way to merge a multiple git repository inside another one even if some of us are forked?

I have to change our code base to a monorepo alternative. That's why I have to "merge" many project inside a new project. But we want to keep git history. My problem is this : I have got a ...
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if(fork()) and if(!fork()) - how do they work?

Let's say we have the following: pid_t pid; pid = fork(); if(pid == 0) { if(fork()) printf("A"); else printf("B"); printf("C"); } else { ...
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VS Code codebase fork

I want to fork the vs code codebase in git repository and clone it in my system. After doing so, I am getting dependency errors and npm install does not happen successfully. Can someone guide me with ...
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execve system call returning an unexpected output

So I've been working on a mini project in C about piping and processes in Linux. A program is executed like this: ./a.out "file1" "cmd1" "cmd2" "file2" It ...
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Cygwin shell behavior when running native executable

Since Windows is not a fully compliant POSIX system, there are significant challenges in implementing an efficient emulation of fork on Cygwin. Cygwin still does a decent job of it but the performance ...
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Forking and piping under windows

use Child qw/child/; my @childs; for my $i (1 .. 65) { push @childs, child { my $parent = shift; $parent->say("[return $i]"); } pipe => 1; } print $_->...
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How to setup Clion to follow child process, permanently

I do know how to follow child proccess in gdb but, I don't want to setup gdb every time. So is it a way of making the debugger of Clion follow child every time ? I use for now the following commands : ...
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ALSA underruns and overruns on process fork() call

This is a rather surprising issue. In my application ALSA is handling constant audio streaming between multiple nodes, the whole application is made out of multiple threads, each assigned to a unique ...
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COW Pages in Fork() System call after child process aborts for generating a core dump

I am trying to generate core dump of a running process by forking the process and aborting the child so that the child will generate a core dump(essentially giving me a dump of the parent's VM), ...
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Why parent process is active when not using wait function?

I am using pipes to display file contents. When I comment the wait command (in the last part of the parent process), I expect to see the parent process in the ps command's output (after a while, ...
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from where the child process will get informations about other variables that are before the fork()?

in my case i have a code where there are mentioned many fork() (8 times) functions so many child processes are going to be created , so let's imagine the every fork() is related to its variable like ...
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Clone/Fork a Process in C++ on Windows? [duplicate]

I'm attempting to understand what is the proper way to clone/fork a process in C++ on Windows. All the examples below are compiled & ran using Visual Studio 2022 on a Windows 10 system. It is my ...
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