ey misc, from the fork(2) man pages:
fork() causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process) except for the following: <snip> i have several questions/clarifications regarding this. 1) when it says "exact copy", does this mean just a copy of the process? is it right to state that the memory allocated by the parent process is not accessible to the child process? 2) "The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors." i take this to mean all file and socket descriptors which both parent and child can write and read to. am i correct? thank you for your patience. -- salud, eyan
