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I have read in books and online resources that the fork() system call creates a copy of current process and both the processes start executing from the point after the fork() system call is made. Is ...

Can anyone, please, explain how does this code work ? int main() { printf("Hello"); fork(); printf("World"); } Prints: HelloWorldHelloWorld My exact question is, why hello is printed twice. ...

I have one problem with fork that i don't undertsand. #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> main(){ printf("test 1.\n"); fork(); printf("test 2.\n"); ...

How many processes does the following piece of code create? Why? int main() { fork(); fork(); fork(); return 0; } I was looking for assitance that said build a tree but i came up with 10 ...

I have the following C code: #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { int i, pid = 0; for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { fork(); pid = getpid(); ...

Possible Duplicate: printf anomaly after “fork()” Using fork with c fork() branches more than expected? I have this example of code, but I don't understand why this code print ...

#include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { fork(); printf("hello\n"); fork(); fork(); return 0; } if fork() system call ...

I'm starting to learn some C and while studying the fork, wait functions I got to a unexpected output. At least for me. Is there any way to create only 2 child processes from the parent? Here my ...

In the book 'Operating System Concepts' - 9th Edition - Chapter 3 - Page 117 - Page 120 it says: Both processes (the parent and the child) continue execution at the instruction after the fork(), with ...

This is my little program: #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("1"); fork(); printf("2"); fork(); return 0; } The output of this code is 12121212 and I ...

How do i create a number of child processes given from command line ? Something like this , where n is given from command line : for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { pids[i] = fork(); }

How many proccesses are created with these fork functions? int main(){ c2=0; c1=fork(); if(c1==0) c2=fork(); fork(); if(c2>0) fork(); } In this site,I have seen ...

So i just want to create a simple forking program that forks 5 children at the rate of 1 per every half second and then displays the date and time when each fork is complete.. so this is the jist of ...

I have the following code: int main(){ int i = 4, pid; while (--i){ pid = fork(); if (pid || (i&1)) printf ("Boo %d\n", i); } return 0; } I understand the code, but I don't ...