fork(2)

DESCRIPTION

Creates a copy-on-write child process.

SYNOPSIS

long fork(void);

RETURN VALUE

• Returns a non-negative result on success. Negative values are ABI errno codes.

ERRORS

• -EAGAIN
  • .
• -ESRCH
  • .

ABI

Arguments enter through the direct syscall ABI; validation is performed before entering the process subsystem.