• process", calls the exec system call to overlay itself with the other program: it ceases execution of its former program in favor of the other. The fork operation...
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    fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources...
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    that in turn execute instructions that invoke the fork and exec system calls. Making the system call directly in the application code is more complicated...
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  • the 14th century. In the software environment, the word evokes the fork system call, which causes a running process to split itself into two (almost) identical...
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  • filesystems Fork (software development), when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches or variations of development Fork (system call), the...
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  • overlaying in system programming exit (system call), terminate a process fork (system call), make a new process (but with the same executable) clone(), the way...
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  • Under Unix and Unix-like operating systems, a process is started when its parent process executes a fork system call. The parent process may then wait...
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  • operating systems, and is sometimes called a subprocess or traditionally a subtask. There are two major procedures for creating a child process: the fork system...
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  • In a computer file system, a fork is a set of data associated with a file-system object. File systems without forks only allow a single set of data for...
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  • resources.[citation needed] exit (system call) fork (system call) Spawn (computing) Wait (command) "Wait System Call in C". GeeksforGeeks. 2017-06-03....
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  • NuttX (category Real-time operating systems)
    needed] or inappropriate for deeply embedded environments, such as the fork() system call.[citation needed] NuttX was initially released in 2007 under the permissive...
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  • in operating systems, sharing the physical memory of computers running multiple processes, in the implementation of the fork() system call. Typically,...
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  • created by the fork() system call. The PID is returned to the parent process, enabling it to refer to the child in further function calls. The parent may...
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    This particularly affects Cygwin, which, due to its lack of a native fork system call, may execute configure scripts considerably slower than Linux. In his...
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  • In Unix-like operating systems, dup (short for "duplicate") and dup2 system calls create a copy of a given file descriptor. This new descriptor actually...
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  • resource fork is a fork of a file on Apple's classic Mac OS operating system that is used to store structured data. It is one of the two forks of a file...
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  • Redis (category Database management systems)
    system in form of secondary indexes, aggregations or other common features of traditional RDBMS. The Redis implementation makes heavy use of the fork...
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  • systems, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork() system call. The process that invoked fork is...
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  • applications had been implemented by using system features specific to Unix, such as pseudo terminals and the fork system call, and reproducing such functionality...
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  • Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. fork() is the name of the system call that the parent...
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    Cygwin (category System administration)
    POSIX locales, and the UTF-8 Unicode encoding became the default. The fork system call for duplicating a process is fully implemented, but the copy-on-write...
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  • Task (computing) Task parallelism Futures and promises POSIX Threads Fork (system call)#Clone Vahalia, Uresh (1996). "Threads and Lightweight Processes"...
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    In parallel computing, the fork–join model is a way of setting up and executing parallel programs, such that execution branches off in parallel at designated...
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  • Booting process of Android devices (category Android (operating system))
    a command is sent to Zygote which executes a fork() system call.[citation needed] The Android system is divided across different partitions. The Qualcomm...
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  • While most forks are short-lived some are permanent. Short-lived forks are due to the difficulty of reaching fast consensus in a distributed system. Whereas...
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  • OS-9 (category Real-time operating systems)
    fork() system call—instead it has a system call which creates a process running a specified program, performing much the same function as a fork-exec or a...
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    default engine that relies heavily on the fork system call. This can further be sped up by leveraging LLVM deferred fork server mode or the similar persistent...
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    A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually...
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    script or a SystemStarter script, involves: Optionally removing unnecessary variables from environment. Executing as a background task by forking and exiting...
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    Spanish Fork is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Provo–Orem Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2020 census reported a population...
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