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What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?
What are the practical differences from a sysadmin point of view when deploying services on a unix based system?
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Why is the default process creation mechanism fork?
The UNIX system call for process creation, fork(), creates a child process by copying the parent process. My understanding is that this is almost always followed by a call to exec() to replace the ...
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When do you need 'nohup' if you're already forking using '&'?
First this question is related but definitely not the same as this very nice question:
Difference between nohup, disown and &
I want to understand something: when I do '&', I'm forking ...
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What's the difference between fork() and vfork()?
I would like to understand in detail the difference between fork() and vfork(). I was not able to digest the man page completely.
I would also like to clarify one of my colleagues comment "In ...
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Why is the following command killing a system?
Anyone understand the following code , running in bash ?
:(){ :|:& };:
It seems to be a "fork" bomb on Linux.
