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Since C# supports threading, is there any way to implement fork concept in C#?
Thanks in advance....
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fork() in C Fork system call is used for creating a new process, which is called child process, which runs concurrently with the process that makes the fork() call (parent process). After a new child process is created, both processes will execute the next instruction following the fork() system call.
fork() is how you create new processes in Unix. When you call fork , you're creating a copy of your own process that has its own address space. This allows multiple tasks to run independently of one another as though they each had the full memory of the machine to themselves.
fork() system call is used to create child processes in a C program. fork() is used where parallel processing is required in your application. The fork() system function is defined in the headers sys/types. h and unistd.
The C library defines fork() . It is the UNIX/Linux-specific system calls to create a process, on linux etc.
This is more a matter of .NET / CLR than of C#. Generally, it's a matter of the underlying operating system. Windows do not support fork()-like semantics of spawning new processes. Also, fork() has nothing to do with multithreading support.
The semantics of fork() involves duplicating the contents of the original process's address space. My opinion is this is an obsolete approach to process creation and has barely any room in the Windows world, because it involves a lot of security and operating system architecture concerns.
From the .NET point of view, the fundamental problem with fork() would be the approach to duplicating and/or sharing unmanaged resources (file handles, synchronization objects, window handles (!), etc.) between the old and the new process. I think there is no serious reason to introduce such concept either to .NET or to the underlying Windows operating system.
For further discussion see saurabh's link.
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