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fork « System Functions « Perl
Perl
System Functions
fork
1.
fork returns the child's process ID
2.
Using fork and pipe.
3.
Using fork to create child processes
4.
To retrieve the process ID for the parent process for your program, call the function getppid.
5.
Distinguish between the parent and child processes