... So after a parent process fork() s a child process, it must wait() (or waitpid() ) for that child process to exit. ... Here's an example of how to use fork () : #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include errno.h #include unistd.h #include sys/types.h #include sys/ wait .h main() { pid _t pid ; int rv; switch( pid = fork ()) { case -1: perror( fork ); /* something went wrong */ exit (1); /* parent exits */ case 0: printf ( CHILD : This is the child process !\n ); ... exit()...

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