fork

Definition

A standard Unix command that instantly duplicates a running program by sharing its memory until one of the copies changes something.

The Unix system call that creates a child process sharing the parent's memory pages copy-on-write; central to DeltaBox's millisecond-scale memory snapshots and to standard RL fan-out for agent training.

Also called: fork()

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