Linux fork() Introduction

Published: 29 January 2015
on channel: Brian Fraser

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Demo the use of the fork() function in Linux/Unix to spawn a new process. Cover the basics of what it does, how to do work in parent and child processes, and how to correctly terminate. Full code can be found at https://github.com/drbfraser/video-tu... Topics list below. See later videos in this playlist for use of exec(), and fork() with exec().

Topics:
Basics of fork and checking parent vs child
Building via command line and GCC
Structing code with a function to do work.
Seeing processes via ps -a
Demo having two separate address spaces
Return a value from child to parent using exit() and wait()
See zombie process
See fork in a loop.

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