Fork: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
({{omit from|PARI/GP}}) |
m (→{{header|Tcl}}: Rewrote for clarity () |
||
| Line 407: | Line 407: | ||
Fork is one of the primitives used for process creation in Unixy systems. It creates a copy of the process that calls it, and the only difference in internal state between the original and the copy is in the return value from the fork call (0 in the copy, but the pid of the copy in the parent). |
Fork is one of the primitives used for process creation in Unixy systems. It creates a copy of the process that calls it, and the only difference in internal state between the original and the copy is in the return value from the fork call (0 in the copy, but the pid of the copy in the parent). |
||
The {{libheader|Expect}}package includes a fork. So does the {{libheader|TclX}}package. |
The [[SMW::off]][[:Category:Expect|Expect]][[Category:Expect]][[SMW::on]]{{#set:Uses library=Expect}}<!--{{libheader|Expect}}--> package includes a fork. So does the [[SMW::off]][[:Category:TclX|TclX]][[Category:TclX]][[SMW::on]]{{#set:Uses library=TclX}}<!--{{libheader|TclX}}--> package. |
||
Example: |
Example: |
||