Fork

See also: The Software Cycle | Processor]

1. A separation from current development.
2. In processors, a separation from a child process.

1. Forked development processes come from one single development effort and usually continue concurrently. Occasionally, a forked project is dropped in favor of the previous and, other times, the main project is dropped.

Examples:

• XFree86 development forked to xouvert.

• Another example of a proposed fork from LinuxBIOS

2. The fork() and fork1() functions create a new process.

The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process). The child process inherits the following attributes from the parent process. From the UNIX MANual page

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