Forking
Learn about the functionality of fork( ) in this lesson.
We'll cover the following
We have already learned, in the last lesson, that a running program is known as a process, and we can create another process from this running program. The first one is known as the parent process; whereas, the second one is known as the child process.
fork()
fork()
launches a child process. Control goes to fork()
only once. Whereas, control returns from fork()
twice.
Example program
See the code given below:
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