fork
Sign in to saveAlso known as fork operation, fork syscall, fork(), Unix fork, process fork, forking a process
in computing, an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself, usually through a system call implemented in the kernel
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Vinony's link graph records 69 inbound references to fork, and connects out to Single UNIX Specification, Linux and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including C POSIX library, Process (computing) and System calls.
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- Subclass of
- system call
- Part of
- computer programming
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- different from
- fork
- has effect
- copy-on-write
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Article · 中文
在计算机领域中，尤其是Unix及类Unix系统操作系统中，fork（进程复制）是一种创建自身行程副本的操作。它通常是内核实现的一种系统调用。Fork是类Unix操作系统上创建进程的一种主要方法，甚至历史上是唯一方法。
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