Fork
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What is a Zombie Process?
A zombie process is a process that has finished execution but still has an entry in the process table because its parent has not yet read its exit status.
What is Copy-on-Write (COW)?
Copy-on-write is an optimization where two entities share the same underlying physical memory pages read-only until one of them attempts to modify the data, at…
How Does Process Creation and the Process Hierarchy Work?
A process is created when an existing parent process calls a system call like fork (Unix) or CreateProcess (Windows), producing a child process with its own PI…