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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works...

The child process is very simple. All it does is return the process ID of the child. The os._exit() call is important as it ensures the child process is killed and is not a zombie when the parent is killed.

As the parent process will be forked to create new children, it is the key function. Only one parent process is created; all other processes will be children.

The following screenshot demonstrates one possible result; as process IDs are different for every system, your results will be different:

As you can see from the output, the child processes may not be immediately created; the parent may have a chance to spawn several ...

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