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Questions and Answers

sleep(1) - suspend execution for an interval of time {oss}

GIT - , the GNU Interactive Tools package, includes: an extensible file system browser, an ASCII/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer, and other related utilities and shell scripts. {GPL,GNU}

monitord-0.2.0 - Service that restarts other standalone services if they terminate

mkcmd-8.14 - Command-line parser and manual page generator

gengetopt-2.4 - A tool for generating a C function which parses command line arguments

clo++-0.5.0 - Command line parser generator

gaa-1.5 - GPL Argument Analyser

command - Replacement for system(3). {oss}

att_getopt - AT&T's public domain distribution of getopt(3) {oss}

getopt - Public domain getopt(3) {oss}

clig - command line interpreter generator {GPL}

zap-1.1.tgz - interactive process killer

execl execlp execle exect execv execvp (3) - execute a file {oss}

execve (2) - execute a file {oss}

exit (3) - perform normal program termination {oss}

_exit (2) - terminate the calling process {oss}

atexit (3) - register a function to be called on exit {oss}

abort (3) - cause abnormal program termination {oss}

assert (3) - expression verification macro {oss}

sigsetjmp siglongjmp setjmp longjmp _setjmp _longjmp longjmperror (3) - non-local jumps {oss}

wait waitpid wait4 wait3 (2) - wait for process termination {oss}

getopt (3) - get option character from command line argument list {oss}

getsubopt (3) - get sub options from an argument {oss}

setproctitle (3) - set process title {oss}

syscall __syscall (2) - indirect system call {oss}

brk sbrk (2) - change data segment size {oss}

end etext edata (3) - end boundaries of image segments {oss}

chdir fchdir (2) - change current working directory {oss}

getcwd getwd (3) - get working directory pathname {oss}

alarm (3) - set signal timer alarm {oss}

ualarm (3) - schedule signal after specified time {oss}

sleep (3) - suspend process execution for interval of seconds {oss}

usleep (3) - suspend execution for interval of microseconds {oss}

nanosleep (2) - suspend process execution for interval of nanoseconds {oss}

pause (3) - stop until signal {oss}

daemon (3) - run in the background {oss}

getpid getppid (2) - get parent or calling process identification {oss}

setlocale localeconv (3) - natural language formatting for C {oss}

p5-Getopt-Long-2.26 - Perl module for extended processing of command line options

libgnugetopt-1.1 - GNU getopt library

libshhopt-1.1.6 - A library for parsing command line options

popt-1.5.1 - A getopt(3) like library with a number of enhancements, from Redhat

Getopts.Man, Getopts.H, Getopts.C, Getoptsts.C - Functions to get command line options {oss}

Getoptsl.H,Getoptsl.Man,Getoptsl.C - Getopts Lite - Smaller & simpler than full GETOPTS {oss}

att_getopt - getopt() source from AT&T public domain {oss}

getopt - public domain getopt(3) {oss}

argtable - C/C++ programmer's library for processing command line arguments. {LGPL}

AtExit - Many operating systems allow you to specify an action to be taken when your program exists. ANSI C specifies that this is to be done with an atexit() function; the AtExit Perl module duplicates this for Perl. Also see END blocks, defined in ./doc [Perl] {oss}

Getopt::Long - Implements POSIX option processing with GNU extensions, so you can parse darn near any command-line option. See Getopt::Std. [Perl] {oss}

Getopt::Mixed - GNU-style option processing, with features of both Getopt::Std and Getopt::Long. See the Getopt::Std module. [Perl] {oss}

Getopt::Std - Option processing for command lines. Let's say you want users to provide "height" and "width" arguments to your program like so: my_program -h 7 -w 10. But you also want to handle my_program -w 10 -h 7. Getopt::Std makes this easy. [Perl] {oss}

petopt - C command line argument parsing library

Getopt::Regex - Lets you handle command-line option processing with regular expressions. [Perl] {oss}

Libraries and Functions

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See also Process Signals and Events - Sending and handling signals and events.

See also Process Limits - Permission and access restriction (files, resources, etc)

See also Program Environment Variables - Getting/ Setting program environment variables

Functions with variable numbers of arguments - Functions with variable number of arguments (vararg, stdarg, va_arg, etc.)

See also: Remote Process Creation and Control - Methods of starting and controlling processes remotely. (telnet, login, rexec, et al.)

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See also Process Creation and Control - covers child process control (like sending signals), renice, fork, et al