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Fork (computers)

Summary: A fork, when applied to a programming language, is when a subroutine creates a copy of itself, which then acts as a "child" of the original subroutine, now called the "parent". More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is duplicated. See also Child process Parent process ...