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Clear filtersAvoid a process from being killed in case of Out of Memory
In our previous post, we understood “What is Out of Memory Killer ?” In this post, we … Read more
Avoid zombie process in Linux
Zombie process is the process which dies/finishes immediately and whose parent didn’t cares to handle the status … Read more
Create process in Linux using fork system call
Below is simple process creation program using fork system call, fork return child’s process Id in main/parent … Read more
Send and Receive (Transfer) integer over socket using C program
Following the simple example which shows how we can send and receive an integer over a socket. … Read more
C program to check total and free RAM memory in Linux
Following C program helps you to identify what is the total and free memory / RAM available … Read more
Example for using shared data between two Unix threads
Following is the simple example to show, how we can create two threads at a time and … Read more
Creating a simple thread in Linux using pthread library api’s
In this post, we create a simple thread using pthread library API “pthread_create” and wait for this … Read more
Understanding Linux page cache memory
If data is written, it is first written to the Page Cache and managed as one of … Read more
Sending ARP request and receiving ARP Reply using C code
This post is in continuation of our previous post “Understanding ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) basics“ To visualise … Read more
Understanding Linux Signals with simple C program
Signals are a limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant … Read more
Identify / Test file types in Linux using C program stat API
The file mode, stored in the st_mode field of the file attributes, contains two kinds of information: … Read more
C program to verify the integrity of a file with md5 checksum
Most of the times we downloaded some files from the internet, and we also see people provides … Read more
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