fork
Sign in to saveAlso known as fork operation, fork syscall, fork(), Unix fork, process fork, forking a process
in computing, an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself, usually through a system call implemented in the kernel
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- system call
- Part of
- computer programming
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- different from
- fork
- has effect
- copy-on-write
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