What is the fork() system call?



What is the fork() system call?..

Answer / Sayyad Musarrat Masood Zaidi

'fork()' is a system call used in Unix-like operating systems to create a new process. It creates an exact copy of the calling process, called the parent process, and returns a unique process ID for the newly created child process. The original process (parent) continues executing from where it left off after the fork(), while the child process resumes execution at the point immediately following the fork() call.

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