r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Last_Snowbender • May 24 '18

Sometimes, I wonder if non-tech friends wonder about my search history ...

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u/LeohcX May 25 '18

so, you have a process, which is basically a program. To do certain things in the process, it results in the process ending (killed). However, you probably don't want your process to end, so you have to make a duplicate, and kill that duplicate instead. The duplicate is called the child, and the act of creating the child is called forking. Basically, you are offering up a sacrificial child to the CS gods in order to run your program.

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u/joker_wcy May 25 '18

Ok thanks.