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After fork(), where does the child begin its execution?
Very precisely the child process begins it's execution while the fork() system call is being executed in the kernel:
There, after having created a new process (and a process control block) the ...
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Parent process always printing output after child
While in principle both processes could run in parallel, the parent process is already active on a CPU, while the child process has to exec to a new process before its output can be created.
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What after exec() in ls command: Is the parent process printing the output to the console or the child?
Strictly speaking neither of parent and child do the actual output to the screen; instead the operating system kernel (specifically the tty driver) does the output.
The processes only send the data to ...
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