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+.\" $OpenBSD: fork.2,v 1.18 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: fork.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:32:36 cgd Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)fork.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $
+.Dt FORK 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm fork
+.Nd create a new process
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In unistd.h
+.Ft pid_t
+.Fn fork void
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn fork
+causes creation of a new process.
+The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the
+calling process (parent process) except for the following:
+.Bl -bullet -offset indent
+.It
+The child process has a unique process ID,
+which also does not match any existing process group ID.
+.It
+The child process has a different parent
+process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process).
+.It
+The child process has a single thread.
+.It
+The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors.
+These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that,
+for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between
+the child and the parent, so that an
+.Xr lseek 2
+on a descriptor in the child process can affect a subsequent
+.Xr read 2
+or
+.Xr write 2
+by the parent.
+This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to
+establish standard input and output for newly created processes
+as well as to set up pipes.
+.It
+The child process has no
+.Xr fcntl 2 Ns -style
+file locks.
+.It
+The child process' resource utilizations
+are set to 0; see
+.Xr getrusage 2 .
+.It
+All interval timers are cleared; see
+.Xr setitimer 2 .
+.It
+The child process' semaphore undo values are set to 0; see
+.Xr semop 2 .
+.It
+The child process' pending signals set is empty.
+.It
+The child process has no memory locks; see
+.Xr mlock 2
+and
+.Xr mlockall 2 .
+.El
+.Pp
+In general, the child process should call
+.Xr _exit 2
+rather than
+.Xr exit 3 .
+Otherwise, any stdio buffers that exist both in the parent and child
+will be flushed twice.
+Similarly,
+.Xr _exit 2
+should be used to prevent
+.Xr atexit 3
+routines from being called twice (once in the parent and once in the child).
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion,
+.Fn fork
+returns a value
+of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child
+process to the parent process.
+Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned to the parent process,
+no child process is created, and the global variable
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn fork
+will fail and no child process will be created if:
+.Bl -tag -width [EAGAIN]
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+The system-imposed limits on the total
+number of processes or total number of threads
+under execution would be exceeded.
+These limits are configuration dependent.
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+The limit
+.Dv RLIMIT_NPROC
+on the total number of processes under execution by the user ID
+would be exceeded.
+.It Bq Er ENOMEM
+There is insufficient swap space for the new process.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr execve 2 ,
+.Xr getrusage 2 ,
+.Xr wait 2
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn fork
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2008 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn fork
+system call first appeared in
+.At v1 .