On Sunday 03 December 2006 14:00, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2006-12-03T13:43:13+1300, Don Gould wrote: > > I've seen reference to fork in a number of posts now and don't > > understand what it means. > > It's the way to create new processes on *IX systems. True.
There is a bit more through explanation here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork() OTOH you might mean the forking of an OSS project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) -- CS
