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Linux / Perl - What happens when a process is forked?

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Mar 15, 20262372 views

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I've read about fork and from what I understand, the process is cloned but which process? The script itself or the process that launched the script? For example: I'm running rTorrent on my machine and when a torrent completes, I have a script run against it. This script fetches data from the web so…

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my $pid = fork();
if ($pid) == 0) { blah blah blah; exit 0; }

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From Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens (pg. 188): 8.3 function The only way a new process is created by the Unix kernel is when an existing process calls the function. (This doesn't apply to the special processes tha…

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