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Semaphores and Mutex behaviour doubts

Do semaphores and mutexes synchronize both threads and processes, or only threads, or only processes? Edit: my mistake it’s C, not shell. Since I programmed through the shell I mistook it. And one more thing: are communication and synchronization the same? Answer SysV IPC semaphores synchronize between …

Python Using Fileinput to Replace Words

I am using Python 2.7 with MAC OS X and wrote a program to replace a word in a file with another word. Any time that word shows up in that file I want it replaced with another word that the user specifies. It seems to be working but it seems to be outputting a couple extra lines on the

FFmpeg not copying all audio streams

I’m having trouble getting ffmpeg to copy all audio streams from a .mp4 file. After hours of searching online, it appears this should copy all streams (as shown in example 4 here): in.mp4 contains 3 streams: Video Audio track 1 Audio track 2 out.mp4 (which should be identical to in.mp4) contains only 2 …

Detect IP-Address change on an interface

I would like to trigger a service when a change of an ip address on a specific interface occurs. Is there a target for this or some other method I am not aware of to achieve this using systemd on Linux (Kernel 3.19)? The service would be used to send a SIGNAL to a defined process. The Linux is running

How can I put my GTK application in the desktop menus?

I started with programming a little time ago and I created my first running application with GTK 3.0. I did not use Glade, I do not know if worth highlight it. My code is working perfectly, but now I have a doubt, how can I make my own desktop menu application? I mean, I want that my application running up

install mysql 5.7 purely from bash script on Ubuntu

I want a bash script that installs a MySQL 5.7 instance without needing any manual input. I was following the tutorial on Digital Ocean and it says for 5.7 you have to run the following commands and then put commands into a prompt (screenshot below). How can I automate the installation if it requires me to us…