See “Background Execution” section of the iPhoneAppProgrammingGuide. In short, your app must be one of these types: Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app Apps that support Voice … Read more
There is no documentation yet. But in WWDC2019, they explain what it is and how to use it. Here is the link: Apple WWDC 2019 Say like you wanted to clean up your database in background to delete old records. First, you have to enable background processing in your Background Modes Capabilities. Then in your … Read more
Note: This post has been updated to include the JobScheduler API of the Android Lollipop release. The following is still a viable way, but can be considered deprecated if you’re targeting Android Lollipop and beyond. See the second half for the JobScheduler alternative. One way to do recurrent tasks is this: Create a class AlarmReceiver … Read more
In my opinion this is the most tricky/hard part of a mainstream/average Android development. For instance on BlackBerry this is IN TIMES easier. Definitely you need to use a Service. AsyncTask does not suit, because it is tightly “bound” to your Activity via a Context handle (otherwise you would not be able to update UI … Read more
Just use a thread. import threading t = threading.Thread(target=long_process, args=args, kwargs=kwargs) t.setDaemon(True) t.start() return HttpResponse() See this question for more details: Can Django do multi-thread works?
I believe the command you are looking for is start /b *command* For unix, nohup represents ‘no hangup’, which is slightly different than a background job (which would be *command* &. I believe that the above command should be similar to a background job for windows.
With all due respect to the users of pgrep, pkill, ps | awk, etc, there is a much better way. Consider that if you rely on ps -aux | grep … to find a process you run the risk of a collision. You may have a use case where that is unlikely, but as a … Read more
As @axelheer mentioned IHostedService is the way to go in .NET Core 2.0 and above. I needed a lightweight like for like ASP.NET Core replacement for HostingEnvironment.QueueBackgroundWorkItem, so I wrote DalSoft.Hosting.BackgroundQueue which uses.NET Core’s 2.0 IHostedService. PM> Install-Package DalSoft.Hosting.BackgroundQueue In your ASP.NET Core Startup.cs: public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddBackgroundQueue(onException:exception => { }); } To … Read more
To ‘background’ a process when you start it Simply add an ampersand (&) after the command. If the program writes to standard out, it will still write to your console / terminal. To foreground the process Simply use the fg command. You can see a list of jobs in the background with jobs. For example: … Read more
You can accomplish what you want, but it is typically a bad idea. Several ASP.NET blog and CMS engines take this approach, because they want to be installable on a shared hosting system and not take a dependency on a windows service that needs to be installed. Typically they kick off a long running thread … Read more