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- ." Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
- ." All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
- ." specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
- ."
- ." @(#)fork.2 6.4 (Berkeley) 5/22/86
- ."
- .TH FORK 2 "May 22, 1986"
- .UC
- .SH NAME
- fork - create a new process
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- .ft B
- #include <sys/types.h>
- #include <unistd.h>
- pid_t fork(void)
- .ft R
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .de SP
- .if t .sp 0.4
- .if n .sp
- ..
- .B Fork
- causes creation of a new process.
- The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the
- calling process except for the following:
- .RS
- .SP
- The child process has a unique process ID.
- .SP
- The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e.,
- the process ID of the parent process).
- .SP
- 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
- .BR lseek (2)
- on a descriptor in the child process can affect a subsequent
- .B read
- or
- .B 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.
- .SP
- The child starts with no pending signals and an inactive alarm timer.
- .RE
- .SH "RETURN VALUE
- Upon successful completion, fBforkfP 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 fBerrnofP is set to indicate the error.
- .SH ERRORS
- .B Fork
- will fail and no child process will be created if one or more of the
- following are true:
- .TP 15
- [EAGAIN]
- The system-imposed limit on the total
- number of processes under execution would be exceeded.
- This limit is configuration-dependent.
- (The kernel variable NR_PROCS in <minix/config.h> (Minix), or
- <minix/const.h> (Minix-vmd).)
- .TP 15
- [ENOMEM]
- There is insufficient (virtual) memory for the new process.
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR execve (2),
- .BR wait (2).