Here is a forking program expressed as a tree (this is parent)

The child process execution is

When the fork call is reached, the parent process creates a child process (clone), and returns a pid for the new child process

The child process doesn't clone/create a new child process (only parent does that), and fork returns zero

After that the two processes are identical, and each of them continues execution from the point of fork ... they both execute code after fork

The child doesn't start from beginning to execute code before fork (its not a new process, its a clone of the parent)

 

When you run the program here is the execution order as a tree

Or the same in table tree form :) the parent process is started and it runs
code before fork
fork call (I parent clone child here) I child gets 0 and I run in parallel
code after fork code after fork

In reply to Re^3: Please Explain the Parallel::ForkManager Idiom my $pid = $pm->start and next; by Anonymous Monk
in thread Please Explain the Parallel::ForkManager Idiom my $pid = $pm->start and next; by Jim

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