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Unix

  • fork() is a system call that is used for process creation. The calling process first creates a copy of itself (i.e. the child process) which may be followed by a call to exec().
  • fork() may fail and returns -1 in that case.
  • When calling kill(), first check if your pid is valid. If you treat -1 as a valid pid, you're going to kill all processes "for which the calling process has permission to send signals, except for process 1 (init)".

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  • If you see the error message /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter, your file has DOS line endings (CRLF) and must thus be converted to Unix line endings (LF) first.