Introducing snooze, a lightweight alternative to cron for scheduling tasks without requiring root privileges or a background service.
A deep dive into implementing a Unix tool with retry logic and timeouts, exploring multiple system-level approaches for waiting on child processes.
An overview of s6 and s6-rc, a suite of Unix service supervision and management tools, covering components like s6-log and s6-supervise.
A developer shares progress on Ares OS, a new operating system with userspace processes, drivers, and initial software ports.
A tutorial on using the pkill command to easily kill processes from the command line, part of an automation series.
A developer investigates and reverse-engineers a forced restart notification from corporate IT software to find a workaround.
Explains Linux process termination handling using Rust code examples, covering child/grandchild processes and parent termination signals.
A guide to redirecting stderr of a running process using gdb, with a practical example and explanation.
A technical guide explaining Linux system calls (fork, execve, pipe) and C library functions for starting and managing processes from within a program.
A guide to gracefully shutting down supervisord-managed services on systemd by implementing a drain hook to prevent dropping in-flight requests.
A critique of the Unix fork() system call, arguing it's a flawed design that leads to issues like the OOM killer and file descriptor management problems.
A technical article explaining process forking in PHP with code examples for asynchronous execution and process management.
A developer solves a 'resource exhausted' error in Hakyll by identifying and killing Spotify processes consuming inotify watches.
How to use Foreman and a Procfile to manage multiple local development processes like Gulp and a web server simultaneously.
Explains how to configure the `top` command in OS X to sort by CPU usage by default using a shell alias.
A technical guide on configuring Django's FastCGI server to run in the foreground as a specific user using daemontools.
