independently executing child process. The parent process may then issue a wait system call, which suspends the execution of the parent process while the child...

of the return statement. Fork bomb Fork–exec exit (system call) spawn (computing) wait (system call) Nyman, Linus (25 August 2016). "Notes on the History...

generate Program Call (PC). On Unix, Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant operating systems, popular system calls are open, read, write, close, wait, exec, fork...

way to get rid of them is to reboot the system. Signal System time sleep (command) Sleep mode wait (system call) MSDN Library Reference - Sleep() "winapi...

Audible tone which indicates an incoming call. 440 Hz 5 ms. Problems playing this file? See media help. Call waiting is a telephone service where a subscriber...

operating system and a SIGCHLD signal is sent to the parent process. The exit status can then be retrieved by the parent process via the wait system call. Most...

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read its child's exit status: once the exit status is read via the wait system call, the zombie's entry is removed from the process table and it is said...

background process [2] 1986 $ wait %2 # waits for background job number 2 to terminate, then returns wait (system call) The Wikibook Guide to Unix has...

system call. This system call facilitates passing the exit status code back to the parent, which can retrieve this value using the wait system call....

without the condition being assigned if the process is signaled; the wait system call aborts and returns EINTR. The Linux p-thread implementation of condition...

queueing is sometimes replaced by virtual queueing. In a waiting room there may be a system whereby the queuer asks and remembers where their place is...

the process table as a zombie process until its parent process calls the wait system call to read its exit status, at which point the process is removed...

Because the child is still consuming system resources but not executing it is known as a zombie process. The wait system call is commonly invoked in the SIGCHLD...

For most file systems, a program initializes access to a file in a file system using the open system call. This allocates resources associated to the...

Asynchronous System Trap (AST). The call may also be issued as QIOW (Queue I/O and Wait for completion), allowing synchronous I/O. In this case, the wait-for-event-flag...

any system call in progress. In fact, it is possible for a process to put itself into a "hibernate" state (with the $HIBER system call), or to wait for...

expensive system calls to request operations on the wait queue (for example to wake up waiting processes, or to put the current process on the wait queue)...

operating system to clean up the resources used by a child process after its termination without an explicit call to the wait system call. SIGCONT The...

operating system, a deadlock occurs when a process or thread enters a waiting state because a requested system resource is held by another waiting process...

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A call-to-gate system is an airport terminal design in which passengers are kept in a central area until shortly before their flight is due to board,...

allows them to wait for the state to change. They provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily give up exclusive access in order to wait for some condition...

is well integrated into most Unix-like operating systems. Pipes are created using the pipe system call, which creates a new pipe and returns a pair of...

and modified using a single call. The changelist array can be used to pass modifications (changing the type of events to wait for, register new event sources...

Process A makes a time-consuming system call. By "time-consuming", it is meant that the system needs to put Process A into a wait queue and can schedule another...

callers with an alternative to waiting on hold when no agents are available to handle inbound call demand. Historically call centres have been built on Private...

call centers and other businesses to improve wait times for users. Call centers use an Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) to distribute incoming calls to...

could call an operating system delay function, but doing so may consume more time than would be expended in spinning for a few clock cycles waiting for...

computer system that makes outgoing calls from a call centre to customers from call agents based upon a loaded list of contacts. Whereas automatic call distribution...