computing, sleep is a command in Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems that suspends program execution for a specified time. The sleep instruction...
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On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution (via the exit system call)...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
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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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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The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed...
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QueryPerformanceCounter(), such as the one used in gnulib. On Unix-like and other POSIX operating systems, the sleep() function is called providing a single parameter...
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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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(IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995). Implementations of the API are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD...
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Top (software) (redirect from Top (UNIX))
of processes) is a task manager or system monitor program, found in many Unix-like operating systems, that displays information about CPU and memory utilization...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from Sigprocmask (Unix))
limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...
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The banner program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems outputs a large ASCII art version of the text that is supplied to it as its program arguments...
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select is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file...
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Load (computing) (redirect from Unix load average)
In UNIX computing, the system load is a measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs. The load average represents the average...
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the use of the results of that check. TOCTOU race conditions are common in Unix between operations on the file system, but can occur in other contexts, including...
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UnxUtils (redirect from Unix Utils)
UnxUtils is a collection of ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities to native Win32, with executables only depending on the Microsoft C-runtime msvcrt...
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Background process (section Background jobs in Unix)
without a session, now called daemons. In this example running on Unix, the sleep utility was launched into the background. Afterward, the ps tool was...
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In computing, mmap(2) is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory. It is a method of memory-mapped file I/O. It implements...
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In computing, apropos is a command to search the man page files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Apropos takes its name from the French "à propos"...
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Shutdown (computing) (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
available in Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, HP MPE/iX, and in a number of Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Apple macOS. In Microsoft Windows and...
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Ping (networking utility) (redirect from Ping (Unix))
Retrieved 8 September 2010. My original impetus for writing PING for 4.2a BSD UNIX came from an offhand remark in July 1983 by Dr. Dave Mills ... I named it...
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List of GNU Core Utilities commands (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
from the GNU Core Utilities for Unix environments. These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. GNU Core...
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Everything is a file (category Unix file system technology)
"Everything is a file" is an idea that Unix, and its derivatives, handle input/output to and from resources such as documents, hard-drives, modems, keyboards...
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used through Mac OS X Server 10.1.5. It was the first version to use the UNIX-style POSIX permissions model and Unicode UTF-8 file name encodings. Version...
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Message queue (section Implementation in UNIX)
common message queue implementations in UNIX. One is part of the SYS V API, the other one is part of POSIX. UNIX SYS V implements message passing by keeping...
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other UNIX systems not using a microkernel. It is written in C and uses UNIX System V syntax, but also supports BSD syntax. Linux supports standard UNIX networking...
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Zawinski Interview". Sleep Mode: The Art of the Screensaver. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Eric S. Raymond The Art of UNIX Programming, p.313 Raymond...
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sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly...
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ccoin(Nickel); ccoin(Dime); Unix.sleep(1); cbutton(BCoffee); Unix.sleep(1); cbutton(BTea); Unix.sleep(1); cbutton(BCancel); Unix.sleep(1) (* let the last message...
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Unix Specification, and should therefore be available in any POSIX-compliant operating system and compiler. For instance, this includes Unix and Unix-like...
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