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C++ System Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   C++ System Programming Cookbook Practical recipes for Linux system-level programming using the latest C++ features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646554
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with System Programming 2. Revisiting C++ FREE CHAPTER 3. Dealing with Processes and Threads 4. Deep Dive into Memory Management 5. Using Mutexes, Semaphores, and Condition Variables 6. Pipes, First-In First-Out (FIFO), Message Queues, and Shared Memory 7. Network Programming 8. Dealing with Console I/O and Files 9. Dealing with Time Interfaces 10. Managing Signals 11. Scheduling 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Killing a process

In the previous recipe, we've seen two ways to start a new process where the parent always waits for their children to finish the task. This is not always the case. Sometimes, a parent should be able to kill the child process. In this recipe, we will see an example of how to do that.

Getting ready

It's important to go through the Starting a new process recipe as a prerequisite.

How to do it...

In this section, we create a program where a parent process forks its child process, the child process will do an infinite loop...

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