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Top Forums Programming Question About Multi-Processed Applications... fork() Post 302259941 by f.ben.isaac on Wednesday 19th of November 2008 09:47:24 AM
Old 11-19-2008
I see...

I made my assumption based on this quote:

"Every process has one parent process. Parent process always has many child processes. and every child process can create another new child process which makes the first child process becomes a parent to the new child process, and in the same time it is considered a child process to its parent process. It is like a parent creates a child and child creates a new child! so the new child process has a parent of a child process who got another parent. It goes like a chain. Parent process does not *always* have many child process only when it forks them."

Thats why i thought second browser is a child of the first browser...
 

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FORK(2) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   FORK(2)

NAME
fork - create a child process SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t fork(void); DESCRIPTION
fork creates a child process that differs from the parent process only in its PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations are set to 0. File locks and pending signals are not inherited. Under Linux, fork is implemented using copy-on-write pages, so the only penalty incurred by fork is the time and memory required to dupli- cate the parent's page tables, and to create a unique task structure for the child. RETURN VALUE
On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the parent's thread of execution, and a 0 is returned in the child's thread of exe- cution. On failure, a -1 will be returned in the parent's context, no child process will be created, and errno will be set appropriately. ERRORS
EAGAIN fork cannot allocate sufficient memory to copy the parent's page tables and allocate a task structure for the child. ENOMEM fork failed to allocate the necessary kernel structures because memory is tight. CONFORMING TO
The fork call conforms to SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3. SEE ALSO
clone(2), execve(2), vfork(2), wait(2) Linux 1.2.9 1995-06-10 FORK(2)
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