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is used in its general meaning, but it is bounded by the programming scope.

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How do I terminate a script?

How do I exit a script early, like the die() command in PHP?
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How to stop/terminate a python script from running?

I wrote a program in IDLE to tokenize text files and it starts to tokeniza 349 text files! How can I stop it? How can I stop a running Python program?
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What does a semi colon do after a conditional block in C#?

I recently came across this code in a project - which I assume was there by mistake: if(condition) { //Whatever... }; Note the semi colon after the closing brace. Does anyone know what the effect of this is? I assume it does not have any effect,…
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How to force stop my android application programmatically?

I'd like to force stop my Android application when I click closeButton. This is my code. protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { this.setContentView(R.layout.layoutxml); this.closeButton = (Button)this.findViewById(R.id.close); …
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Why shouldn't I use Process.GetCurrentProcess().Kill() to exit my WinForm application?

Right now, when the user want to exit my application, I do the few things I have to (ie disconnecting from the server, saving the user data...) and then I do the following : Exit all my mainloops using booleans abort the threads still running…
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Pkill -f doesn't work for process killing

I have this process running: 342 pts/2 T 0:00 sh -c sudo screen /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses "http://zoink.it/torrent/732A4A9B54B7E3A916C2835D936D985942F65A6D.torrent" --display_interval 20 --saveas "/srv/" 343 pts/2 T 0:00…
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Detect file creation with watchdog

I am trying to detect when a file with a given name is created in a directory. I am doing it thanks to watchdog. The creation is correctly detected but I don't know how to terminate the application properly once the detection is done. My piece of…
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Guaranteed file deletion upon program termination (C/C++)

Win32's CreateFile has FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, but I'm on Linux. I want to open a temporary file which will always be deleted upon program termination. I could understand that in the case of a program crash it may not be practical to guarantee…
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Assisting Agda's termination checker

Suppose we define a function f : N \to N f 0 = 0 f (s n) = f (n/2) -- this / operator is implemented as floored division. Agda will paint f in salmon because it cannot tell if n/2 is smaller than n. I don't know how to tell Agda's termination…
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How to know whether app is terminated by user or iOS (after 10min background)

How to know whether app is terminated by user or by iOS when restart app> 'By user' means "by Double-clicking Home Button and pressing - button". killed by user 'By iOS' means "app become background running state, and iOS terminate app after 10…
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How terminate child processes when parent process terminated in C#

Task: Auto kill all child processes if parent process terminate. Parent procees can be terminated not only in correct way, but also by killing in ProcessExplorer, for example. How can I do it? Similar question in С topic advice to use Job objects.…
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C++ TerminateProcess function

I've been searching examples for the Win32 API C++ function TerminateProcess() but couldn't find any. I'm not that familiar with the Win32 API in general and so I wanted to ask if someone here who is better in it than me could show me an example…
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EC2 volume: how do I set it so that it WILL delete on termination?

I have an EC2 instance that I'd like to take a snapshot of, to use as an AMI for future spot instances. Because of the way I created volume for this instance, it is currently set to not delete upon termination. I want it to delete on termination, so…
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Kubernetes Nginx: How to have zero-downtime deployments?

I am attempting to have a kubernetes nginx deployment with zero downtime. Part of that process has been to initiate a rollingUpdate, which ensures that at least one pod is running nginx at all times. This works perfectly well. I am running into…
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Bash: How do I make sub-processes of a script be terminated, when the script is terminated?

The question applies to a script such as the following: Script #!/bin/sh SRC="/tmp/my-server-logs" echo "STARTING GREP JOBS..." for f in `find ${SRC} -name '*log*2011*' | sort --reverse` do ( OUT=`nice grep -ci -E "${1}" "${f}"` …
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