Periodic

[ University Project | Spring 2020 ]

Program to execute commands at regular time intervals. C programming project.

How to use

• Download Periodic.zip here and extract it
• Localize the dynamic libraries : export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PWD}
• Launch period as a daemon with launch_damon
• Use periodic to interact with period

Features

• Launch period :

./launch_daemon ${PWD}/period

• Add a command :

./periodic start period command [args...]

• Get the commands list :

./periodic

• Remove a command from list :

./periodic remove command_id

Operating system learning

• Process
• Pipes
• Signals