Talk:Fork: Difference between revisions

This appears unclear to me -- is the forked process supposed to be the same as the forking process or just any odd old process? How does this differ from [[Simple_concurrent_actions]]? At what level is the fork supposed to happen (does it have to have a different OS-level pid or can it run as a parallel script on the same interpreter, for example). I guess my biggest conceptual trouble is understanding what that process is supposed to <i>do</i>: "Fork a process" is like "build a machine" - without any spec as to the machines <i>purpose</i>, I wouldn't know what to do. On some level, every GUI program on modern hardware consists of many parallel processes already (mouse and kbd interactions, video display, file i/o, all possibly at the same time) so I'm guessing the new process should do something beyond merely "existing" - but what? [[User:Sgeier|Sgeier]] 20:04, 14 March 2007 (EDT)