09-17-2007
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Originally Posted by
StrengthThaDon
also is there a way to JUST spawn children? I don't understand why fork() would create parent processes.
You are missing the point.
Your code is executing within one process.
You call fork().
Your code is now executing in two processes, the original process and the child process,
fork() only creates one new process, the child process.
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