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(Q14675)

English

fork

in computing, an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself, usually through a system call implemented in the kernel

  • fork operation
  • fork syscall
  • fork()
  • Unix fork
  • process fork
  • forking a process
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subclass of
system call
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has effect
copy-on-write
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/m/01ryvq
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fork.2
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