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fork() and child processes
Hello,

How many child processes are actually created when running this code ?

Code:
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main () {
int i ;
setpgrp () ;
for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
if (fork () == 0) {
if ( i & 1 ) setpgrp () ;
printf ("Child id: %2d, group: %2d\n", getpid(), getpgrp()) ;
sleep (60) ;
exit (0) ;
}
}
kill (0, SIGINT) ;
return 0 ;
}

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-19-2008 at 09:50 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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fork

FORK(2) 						      BSD System Calls Manual							   FORK(2)

NAME

     fork -- create a new process

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <unistd.h>

     pid_t
     fork(void);

DESCRIPTION

     Fork() causes creation of a new process.  The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process) except for
     the following:

	   o   The child process has a unique process ID.

	   o   The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process).

	   o   The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors.	These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that,
	       for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a descriptor in the
	       child process can affect a subsequent read or write by the parent.  This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish
	       standard input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes.

	   o   The child processes resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2).

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, fork() returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent
     process.  Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to
     indicate the error.

ERRORS

     Fork() will fail and no child process will be created if:

     [EAGAIN]		The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution would be exceeded.  This limit is configuration-
			dependent.

     [EAGAIN]		The system-imposed limit MAXUPRC (<sys/param.h>) on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would
			be exceeded.

     [ENOMEM]		There is insufficient swap space for the new process.

SEE ALSO

     execve(2), wait(2)

HISTORY

     A fork() function call appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

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