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Explain fork() system call?

Answer Posted / suresh babu

fork() is the system call to creat the child process to the
existing process.The child process copy the source code of
the parent process and assaign new memory address.After
fork call both parent and child executes the followed
instruction.fork call returns the pid of child process to
parent and returns 0 to child process.

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