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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/fork.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/fork.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cd1cedd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/fork.2 @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +.\" $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 $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)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 . |
