Computer Science: An Overview: Global Edition (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson Higher Education
ISBN 10: 1292061162
ISBN 13: 978-1-29206-116-0

Chapter 3 - Operating Systems - Chapter Review Problems - Page 163: 11

Answer

In UNIX and LINUX, the command to create new processes is fork() and then exec().

Work Step by Step

Calling the fork() command creates a copy of your current process. This creates a child process and the original process is called the parent process. The child process can then call the exec() command to replace itself with the code of a different program.
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