fork function

fork spawns a copy of the running process. The copy (or child) has a copy of the parent process stack, data area and heap and starts execution after the fork statement. fork is of use when you wish to write daemon processes.


	Library:   unistd.h

	Prototype: pid_t fork(void);

	Syntax:    pid_t PID

                   PID = fork();

On completion, PID will have one of the following values:

 > 0 == the childs process ID.
   0 == is returned to the child process.
 < 0 == an error occoured. No child created, errno is set to 
        indicate the problem

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fork function

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