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Noun Concept
Categories: C POSIX library, System calls, Process (computing)
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fork  Clone  fork operation  Fork Paging  fork syscall
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In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. Wikipedia
English:
system call
computers
operating system
Unix
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In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. Wikipedia
The method whereby a running process creates a new process Wikipedia Disambiguation
Term related to processes in computer science Wikidata
A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program. Wiktionary
IS A
system call
PART OF
programming
fork-exec
DIFFERENT FROM
fork
HAS EFFECT
copy-on-write
Wikipedia
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fork (system call)
Wikidata
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Clone, fork
Wiktionary
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fork
Wikipedia Redirections
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clone (Linux system call), Fork(), Fork Paging, Fork syscall, Process fork, rfork, vfork
Wikidata Alias
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fork operation, fork syscall, forking a process, process fork, Unix fork, fork()

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