ISRO2008-63

Question

Fork is

• A. the creation of a new job
• B. the dispatching of a task
• C. increasing the priority of a task
• D. the creation of a new process

Answer 1

System call fork() is used to create processes. It takes no arguments and returns a process ID. The purpose of fork() is to create a new process, which becomes the child process of the caller. So answer is D

Answer 2

fork() system call creates new process.

Comments

Answer is D

Answer 3

ans- D  -  the creation of a new process

Job often mean set of process while  process is single unit of task.