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fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process. The new process is referred to as the child process. The calling process is referred to as the parent process.

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Welcome to forks() for me!. A simple site where I publish my work, my rants, and my thougths.

What should you expect from this site:

  • rants about the current state of technology
  • thoughts on the ongoing projects I work on
  • sarcasm
  • boring work related stuff (might be interesting for you though)
  • basically, anything I need to remember which, otherwise, I’ll surely forget

Why is it called like this, why forks for me? That’s a good question, I’m glad you asked.

Many, many years ago, when multithreading on Linux was a PITA, my boss tasked me with a simple job. To write a multithreaded Perl program we needed for a newlly developed project. The gory details are unnecessary for this story. A couple of days later, this happened:

Him: Is that Perl program ready yet mate?

Me: Man, I’ve tried with threads. Works fine on Windows but not so much on Linux. I rewrote the whole damn thing using fork(). Are you OK with this?

Him: forks for me… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯