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C Programming: Creating a child process using “clone”

By MalinPosted on May 19, 2014Posted in C Programming

clone() function is used to create a child process from calling process. Calling process will be the parent process of the child process. clone() function is used to run a particular function in a separate thread other than the calling process. Unlike fork() function where rest of the code after fork() function call will execute […]

C Programming – Creating a child process with “fork”

By MalinPosted on May 14, 2014Posted in C Programming

fork() function is used to create a child process. The process who calls this function is called parent process. Once the fork() function is called, it creates an exact copy of the calling process. The syntax of the function is: pid_t fork(void); where pid_t is an unique integer which refers the process id. As we […]