John Carter wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Don Gould wrote:
>
>> I've seen reference to fork in a number of posts now and don't
>> understand what it means.
>>
>> Could someone give a 10 word heads up?
>
> One of those glorious bits of "man page" arcana....
>
> $ man perlfunc
> /zombie
>
> If you "fork" without ever waiting on your children, you will
> accumulate zombies.
>
> Now you know what is wrong with schooling today...
>
> ("man fork" is actually more helpful...)
>
>
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My Ubuntu installation has no man fork [1].
However, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28disambiguation%29
describes three computing-related meanings:
* Fork (operating system)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28operating_system%29>, a
method of creating new processes.
o Fork bomb <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb>,
malicious code which creates a fork of itself, exponentially
spawning processes and using system resources.
* Fork (software development)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29>,
when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches
or variations of development.
* Fork (filesystem)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28filesystem%29>, a part of a
file in certain filesystems.
o Resource fork <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork>,
a companion file with metadata for some files in Macintosh OS.
Stephen
[1] Perhaps it need a woman?
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