Change in Process Id after fork

sankumar · 12-24-2008, 03:04 AM

Hi,
Why Process Id(PID) is incremented 1 after creating a child process?
Consider the following and its corresponding outputs.

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
int pid;
int pid_fork;
pid = getpid();
printf("\n Process Id is %d \n",pid);
pid_fork = fork();

if(pid_fork !=0)
printf("\n Process Id after fork %d \n",pid_fork);
}

Output
Process Id is 28770
Process Id after fork 28771

Thanks in advance

Hko · 12-24-2008, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sankumar

Hi,
Why Process Id(PID) is incremented 1 after creating a child process?

It's not: fork() returns the PID of the new process just created, not the PID of the process that called fork().