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THREAD

Section: PUPS commands (1)
Updated: 21 December 1999
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NAME

THREAD - execute a homogenous farm.

 

SYNOPSIS

thread [ -verbose ] threaded instances command name = >& <log file>

 

DESCRIPTION

thread(1) is a comamnd which executes homogenous farms. The command which is farmed can be a simple binary or a shell script or process pipeline. thread(1) creates a process group for the farm using setsid(2) and then uses fork(2) and execvp(2) to launch a user specified number of instances threaded instances ( ) of the command ( command name ). If thread(1) is in the forground it waits for the completion of the farm via the wait(2) call.

 

OPTIONS

-verbose Tells thread(1) to report what it is doing via stderr.

 

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

none

 

COPYRIGHT

(C) Tumbling Dice Ltd.

 

PROGRAMMER

M.A. O'Neill.
   

SEE ALSO

wait(2), setsid(2), fork(2)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
COPYRIGHT
PROGRAMMER
SEE ALSO

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