CSC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Entry Point, Parent Process, Child Process
22 Mar 2018
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Csc209h5s - software programming and tools (winter 2018) 1 (or any negative value) if fork() fails. If your program fails to create another process (usually because the operating system doesn"t think you can create another process) Pid of a child for a parent process. Fork is a way for you to create a new job. Process are something that needs to be done on your os. We can"t keep reusing the same process, otherwise you would only be able to do one thing. If the jobs are runned separately and one fails, it will/shouldn"t affect the others. We won"t know which process is being executed/printed at any time. The os decides the process turns between the child process and the parent process. Consider the program below that runs without errors. In the table to the right, indicate how many times the name of each fruit is printed. int main() {
