Hi, When a process forks, every resource of the parent, including the virtual memory is copied to the child process. The copying of VM uses copy-on-write(COW). I know that COW comes when a write request comes, and then the copy is made. Now my query follows:
How will the copy be distributed. Whether giving the child process a new copy of VM be permanent or whether they will be merged anywhere? And shouldn't the operations/updations by one process be visible to the other which inherited the copy of the same VM? How can this work? Can someone please help me on this regard? -- With regards, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P R&D Engineer HCL Infosystems Ltd Pondicherry INDIA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
