We have a single filestore, visible from both Windows and Linux, and our product has both Windows and Linux components. Our QA guy is trying to automate the nightly builds. What he needs to do is have ...

Time for me to play devil's advocate again. The Schneier Wave graph to the right may be the most famous diagram in computer security. It's named for Bruce Schneier of Counterpane, a leading computer ...

When you disown a Linux process in bash, you keep it from being terminated when you log out and allow it to finish on its own. This post shows how to use the disown command. When you want a process to ...

Imagine a time when processes and services are completely transitory and server-agnostic, carrying their dependencies with them; it's not far away Lately I’ve been causing a ruckus among readers who ...

Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing when others have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own child processes have ended, but not unrelated processes, or at ...