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...

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...

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...

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...

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...