Answer to Question #315509 in UNIX/Linux Programming for Attique

Question

How many number of processes will be created in the following program? Prove your answer by making a replica code that will count no of processes created.

int main()

{

  fork();

  fork();

  fork();

  fork();

}

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
  pid_t pid = fork();
  pid = fork();
  pid = fork();
  if (pid == 0)
  {
    fork();
  }
  fork();
  return 0;
}