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fork - create a child process
Návod, kniha: Linux Programmer's Manual
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
pid_t fork(void);
fork creates a child process that differs from the parent process only in
its PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations are set to 0.
File locks and pending signals are not inherited.
Under Linux,
fork is implemented using copy-on-write pages, so the only
penalty incurred by fork is the time and memory required to duplicate the
parent's page tables, and to create a unique task structure for the child.
On success, the PID of the child process is returned in the parent's thread of
execution, and a 0 is returned in the child's thread of execution. On failure,
a -1 will be returned in the parent's context, no child process will be
created, and
errno will be set appropriately.
- EAGAIN
- fork cannot allocate sufficient memory to copy the
parent's page tables and allocate a task structure for the child.
- EAGAIN
- It was not possible to create a new process because the
caller's RLIMIT_NPROC resource limit was encountered. To exceed
this limit, the process must have either the CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability.
- ENOMEM
- fork failed to allocate the necessary kernel
structures because memory is tight.
The
fork call conforms to SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3.
clone(2),
execve(2),
setrlimit(2),
vfork(2),
wait(2),
capabilities(7)
