Linux Programming Blog Entry 1 - the basics

[jevin]

So this was mostly a review for me to remember what was gone over in operating systems. The reason I'll be writing about this is to help me internalize the information and I consider this first entry to be a sort of practice entry so... here goes!

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[jevin]

I recall it depending on a few things. Assuming COW is being used, they share the same physical address space (which includes heap, stack, pages, etc) and code segments (library files). I might be missing things... even in COW the child gets its own PCB, right? I'm pretty sure it'd have to...