Question

How to spawn another process in C

Answer 1

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int mypid = fork(); // fork() creates a clone of the process 

    if (mypid == 0) {
        printf("child process - %d\n", getpid());
    }
    else {
        printf("parent process - %d\n", getpid());
    }

    return 0;
}




/*
run:

parent process - 22
child process - 23

*/

 

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