puneet0307

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• Jun 19th, 2009

 

fork creates a child process that differs from the parent process only in its
PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations are set to 0. File
locks and pending signals are not inherited.

RETURN VALUE On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the
parent's thread of execution, and a 0 is returned in the child's thread of
execution. On failure, a -1 will be returned in the parent's context, no child
process will be created, and errno will be set appropriately.