What is a process A program in execution is called as a process. A process is an active entity, means it can be a cause of change in system’s state/data/elements. when does a program becomes a process A program is a file stored on secondary storage which contains, set of instruction written for some specific purpose. When this program is …
fork() system call – Operating System
When a process invokes/calls fork() function, a new process is created which has the same address space. As the address space is copied => PC (program counter) will also has the same value as old process has. That means the newly created process (also called as child process) will start executing from the instruction, parent process is currently executing => …