Hi all— I have a little piece of code that that opens up a file using run(xdg-open $file, wait=false) (removing the inner back ticks for better rendering). I’d really like to work out some way to keep track of these processes and kill old ones once a certain number are running at the same time and …

Keeping track of processes with `wait=false`

jling February 3, 2021, 2:44am 2

notice how the process is instantly finished. Basically the process that starts xdg-open doesn’t manage what xdg-open actually spawns.

This is the intended behavior of xdg-open, nothing Julia can do here.

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