• communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to...
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  • additional signals; see Unix signal. SIGTRAP for debugging purposes. It's platform-dependent and may be used on Unix-like operating systems. A signal can be...
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    The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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  • utility for Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems and beyond, the primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device...
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  • protocol used by the Signal application Signal (IPC), a form of inter-process communication used in Unix and related operating systems C signal handling, a way...
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    applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...
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  • advanced features can be performed by sending signals to the job. Job control is of particular interest in Unix due to its multiprocessing, and should be...
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  • Kill (command) (redirect from Kill (Unix))
    operating systems to send signals to running processes. In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, kill is a command used to send a signal to a process. By default...
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  • SIGHUP (redirect from Signal 1 (POSIX))
    If the process receiving SIGHUP is a Unix shell, then as part of job control it will often intercept the signal and ensure that all stopped processes...
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  • from its parent, a child and parent may signal each other. POSIX requires the UID to be an integer type. Most Unix-like operating systems represent the UID...
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    extglob matching Lexicographic sorting with < and >; UNIX-style pipelines: |; Subshells: ( ... ); Signaling as a means of inter-process communication using...
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  • The Unix command fuser is used to show which processes are using a specified computer file, file system, or Unix socket. For example, to check process...
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  • Sigaction (redirect from Sigaction (Unix))
    when receiving specific OS signals. In Unix-like operating systems, one means of inter-process communication is through signals. When an executing unit (process...
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    Cron (redirect from Crontab (Unix command))
    The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule...
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  • longer offered the service.[citation needed] It is implemented on Unix (like macOS), Unix-like systems (like Linux and FreeBSD), and current versions of...
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  • and the signals received by this executable command-line argument. As of version IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, truss is not part of the Single UNIX Specification...
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  • Multi-Environment Real-Time (MERT), later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT), is a hybrid time-sharing and real-time operating system developed in the 1970s...
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  • the Unix shells ksh, bash, fish and zsh, the disown builtin command is used to remove jobs from the job table, or to mark jobs so that a SIGHUP signal is...
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    CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer...
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  • electrical signal that has a width of less than one second and a sharply rising or abruptly falling edge that accurately repeats once per second. PPS signals are...
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  • Windows Server 2012 and Enterprise version of Windows 8 Single UNIX Specification POSIX signal POSIX Threads C POSIX library IBM Common User Access – User...
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  • Killall (redirect from Killall (Unix))
    sending a signal, like the kill program. Kill all processes named xmms: killall xmms Free and open-source software portal List of Unix commands Signal (computing)...
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  • File descriptor (category Unix file system technology)
    In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or...
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  • process groups, daemons, inter-process communication, and signals. One chapter is devoted to the Unix terminal control and another to the pseudo terminal concept...
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    Bourne shell (category Unix shells)
    operating systems. The Bourne shell was the default shell for Version 7 Unix. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the Bourne shell,...
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    Htop (redirect from Htop (Unix))
    process viewer and process manager. It is designed as an alternative to the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running...
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  • standby condition. Its most common use today is to cause a Unix terminal driver to signal end of file and thus exit programs that are awaiting input....
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  • v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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  • main function to signal success or failure by returning an integer, or returning the macros EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE. On Unix-like systems these...
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    To generate software interrupts in Unix-like operating systems, the kill(pid,signum) system call will send a signal to another process. pid is the process...
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