Jun 12, 2009 · In many programs and man pages of Linux, I have seen code using fork(). Why do we need to use fork() and what is its purpose?

Jan 27, 2018 · What do the fork function return in the parent process? What does it return in the child process? And how do short-circuit evaluation work? When you can answer that you know what will happen. Knowing operator precedence would also be helpful.

Nov 2, 2016 · Fork creates a duplicate process and a new process context. When it returns a 0 value it means that a child process is running, but when it returns another value that means a parent process is running. We usually use wait statement so that a child process completes and parent process starts executing.

A fork is a copy of a project folder (repository) into your github account or onto your desktop if you use Github on your Desktop. This allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. You can try this out at Github itself, …

Dec 19, 2015 · fork() duplicates the process, so after calling fork there are actually 2 instances of your program running. How do you know which process is the original (parent) one, and which is the new (child) one? In the parent process, the PID of the child process (which will be a positive integer) is returned from fork().

A fork is just a request for GitHub to clone the project and registers it under your username; GitHub also keeps track of the relationship between the two repositories, so you can visualize the commits and pulls between the two projects (and other forks).

Feb 2, 2016 · It looks like you're using gcc as part of MinGW, which does provide the unistd.h header but does not implement functions like fork. Cygwin does provide implementations of functions like fork.

Aug 31, 2010 · I'd like to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of forking a github project vs. creating a branch of a github project. Forking makes my version of the project more isolated from the

Oct 31, 2009 · The main difference between fork() and exec() is that, The fork() system call creates a clone of the currently running program. The original program continues execution with the next line of code after the fork () function call. The clone also starts execution at …

Nov 30, 2012 · The C standard library (glibc) implements fork() which calls a UNIX/Linux-specific system call eventually to create a process, on Windows, you should use the winapi CreateProcess() see this example in MSDN. Note: Cygwin fork() is just a wrapper around CreateProcess() see How is fork () implemented?