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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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Forking processes

Process forking is the traditional method of parallelizing work, especially in *nix operating systems. When a program is forked, the OS simply makes a new copy of the original program, including its memory state, and proceeds to run the two versions of the program simultaneously. Naturally, the copied program can have its own forks, creating a hierarchy of the original, parent process, with numerous children and grandchildren copies. If the parent program is killed, the child processes can still operate normally.

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