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...

fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

needed] or inappropriate for deeply embedded environments, such as the fork() system call.[citation needed] NuttX was initially released in 2007 under the permissive...

resources.[citation needed] exit (system call) fork (system call) Spawn (computing) Wait (command) "Wait System Call in C". GeeksforGeeks. 2017-06-03....

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...

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...

in operating systems, sharing the physical memory of computers running multiple processes, in the implementation of the fork() system call. Typically,...

system in form of secondary indexes, aggregations or other common features of traditional RDBMS. The Redis implementation makes heavy use of the fork...

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...

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...

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...

applications had been implemented by using system features specific to Unix, such as pseudo terminals and the fork system call, and reproducing such functionality...

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...

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...

systems, every process except process 0 (the swapper) is created when another process executes the fork() system call. The process that invoked fork is...

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...

Task (computing) Task parallelism Futures and promises POSIX Threads Fork (system call)#Clone Vahalia, Uresh (1996). "Threads and Lightweight Processes"...

a command is sent to Zygote which executes a fork() system call.[citation needed] The Android system is divided across different partitions. The Qualcomm...

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...

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...

NTFS, though until 2005 almost no system software took advantage of forks other than the data fork and resource fork. HFS Plus also uses a full 32-bit...

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...

script or a SystemStarter script, involves: Optionally removing unnecessary variables from environment. Executing as a background task by forking and exiting...

A forklift (also called industrial truck, lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to...