fork(2) — Linux manual page (source code)

= fork(2) — Linux manual page
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Publisher: Linux man-pages project; HTML hosted on man7.org.

Online text: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fork.2.html

Cited passages: DESCRIPTION and NOTES: child process, separate memory spaces, shared open file descriptions, copy-on-write implementation; DESCRIPTION: inherited file descriptors share open file descriptions; MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_WIPEONFORK exceptions; NOTES: Linux fork uses copy-on-write pages.