fork — create a new process¶

IEEE and The Open Group. fork — create a new process.

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Orphan Process
- POSIX specifies that `fork()` creates a child with the caller as its parent and that, if a parent terminates without waiting for all children, remaining children receive a new parent process ID corresponding to an implementation-defined system process.

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