Explain fork() system call?
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Answer / haritha
Fork is a funciton used to duplicate a process. The newly
created process is called "child process" and the
original one is called "parent process". The two processes
will differ only in PID (Process ID).
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Answer / jitendra patil
fork() system call are used in unix for making child
process.
The child process copy the source code of
the parent process and assaign new memory address.
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