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child process
child process[′chīld ‚präs·es] (computer science) One of the subsidiary processes that branches out from the root task in the fork-join model of programming on parallel machines. child process (operating system)A process created by another process (theparent process). Each process may create many childprocesses but will have only one parent process, except forthe very first process which has no parent. The firstprocess, called init in Unix, is started by the kernelat boot time and never terminates. A child process inheritsmost of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent.In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) asa copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlayitself with a different program (using exec) as required. |