Questions tagged [external-process]
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Force external process to be killed after time period
I have a command line executable that is run from a C# class library. In some very rare situations the executable will hang because of the command line data passed to it. Unfortunetely this causes the application calling the c# DLL to hang whilst it…

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run powershell script with C# System.Diagnostics.Process , powershell script sees no arguments
I decided to use System.Diagnostics.Process to run a powershell script just because it seemed simple,I didn't care about the result output, and I wanted the user to be able to see what was running
Process process = new…

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How to print log messages from external modules to the main Python module's terminal window?
I am writing a Python command line program.
There is a main Python script file, acting as the entry point. When user run this script, it will execute a few external Python script files. The external Python script files may also execute other…

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How to get memory usage of an external program - python
I am trying to get the memory usage of an external program within my python script. I have tried using the script http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286222/ as follows:
m0 = memory()
subprocess.call('My program')
m1 = memory(m0)
print m1
But this…

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Create a WPF "control" that is run in an external process
I have a WPF app which contains a number of child controls.
One of these controls hosts a third party library which underneath the covers runs some native code which throws access violations and crashes the application. Unfortunately removing the…

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Python: How to execute external program with parameters from another file?
I am trying to write a python script to execute a command line program with parameters imported from another file. The command line interface for the program works as follows:
./executable.x parameter(a) parameter(b) parameter(c) ...
My code…

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exec/system() - script being called works until called from PHP
I have a bash script:
run.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/project/bin/
CMD="./executable ;
$CMD
When I run this program from the terminal. (i.e. ./run.sh, it works fine)
However when I call it from PHP:
system("full_path_to_sh_file",…

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How to ask javascript to wait an end of executing external application?
Colls, hello.
My javascript run an external .bat file:
var objShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
objShell.ShellExecute("start.bat", "Main.bat c:\pr ext.dat ", "C:\\PR\\", "open", "1");
Start.bat file works five minutes. And…

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Running another program using Python
I have a program that processes files and returns another file as output. When I am running it in cmd I first set the path: "cd c:\program" and then set it to process the file located in the program folder: "program test.txt". I would like a python…

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How to automatically check for content and save to a file?
Hello,
I am calling few contents from my blog to my website, however when user goes to my website, every-time he use to come to my website the contents of the blogs are fetched and then get displayed. Which slow down the website performance.
Now i…

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Execute a batch of processes: asynchronous or continuous?
The user now launched the "Convert all" function, it should run a seperate process for each of them items.
What's the recommeded way, convert them one after the other one by one, or launch a seperate conversion thread for each of the items letting…

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WPF Application crashes on WIndows 7 when command executable.Start() is run
I've got a tiny Portal I´m writing, and this portal is supposed to launch installers on button click. I´m developing on VS2010 on a WinXP SP3 station, and on this machine, even fter compilation and publishing, everything works as expected. However,…

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Interract with a .exe program with js instead of typing in the program
Hello I'm tryna make a Skyrim server Dashboard.
The server look like this =>
On this server i can type some command like this =>
when I manualy wrote /help and it show the output.
I tried to run the executable in node js, the server is working, I…

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external program from java doesn't terminate
When I try to execute an external program from java I use this code below :
Process p;
rn = Runtime.getRuntime();
String[] unzip = new String[2];
unzip[0]="unzip";
unzip[1]=archive ;
public void dezip() throws IOException{
p =…

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Debian - invoke external script from exim on receipt of emails
I am looking fopointers on the best approach to process incoming emails to a certain vhost and to call an external script with the email data as parameters - basically to allow email to be sent to a certain "private" email address at a host which…

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