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Sending payload with sigaction

how can I use sigaction such that a process can send a payload with the signal that can be retrieved by the receiving process? Answer You use a realtime signal (SIGRTMIN+0 to SIGRTMAX-0), so that the signals are queued, and you have a much lesser chance of missing one. (Standard signals are not queued, so if …

Storing awk manipulation in variable

I have two text files in tab delimted format like following. file_1 file_2 these two file contents were stored into two different variables. Now I would like extract the lines which has “+” symbol in column 4 and store it in the variable and later print it. But it throws me error message: Here is …

dlopen fails in chroot

I’m attempting this: I have an environment defined in /chroot/debian6.0/ where I have bound some directories and created other ones. One is libs/ which contains the library libOne.so and its dependencies So: This library has been compiled in the chroot environment, and I want to open it with a process r…

Isn’t it possible for a file to not be visible for other processes?

I have a Java application which is invoked from a shell script and creates a file, then writes some content to it. It works something like this: The resulting file will be quite large (up to 100MB). The issue is that opening the FileOutputStream creates an empty file and makes it available to other processes …