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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Tuesday, November 5, 2002 3:02:57 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Monday, November 4, 2002 12:52:15 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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  return 0; 
 
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+Note that on a machine with a single [CPU], this will output large groups of "aaaaa...." followed by large groups of "bbbb..." as each process gets a timeslice. On a machine with more than one CPU, you might be more likely to see "a" and "b" interspersed in smaller units as both processes can run at the same time.  
  
 !!SEE ALSO 
 clone(2), execve(2), vfork(2), wait(2) 
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