Process is a computer term that refers to an executing program. Put another way, a process is a means of allocating the resources of a computer system. A process executes a program. Multiple addresses can execute the same program, but each process has...

A child process is a computer process created by another process (the parent process). A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In UNIX, a child process is in fact created (using fork) as a copy of the...