A new process can be created by the fork() system call. The new process consists of a copy of the address space of the original process. fork() creates new process from existing process. Existing process is called the parent process and the process is created newly is called child process.

How do you create a process in Unix?

In UNIX and POSIX you call fork() and then exec() to create a process. When you fork it clones a copy of your current process, including all data, code, environment variables, and open files. This child process is a duplicate of the parent (except for a few details).

How do you create a new process?

Process creation is achieved through the fork() system call. The newly created process is called the child process and the process that initiated it (or the process when execution is started) is called the parent process. After the fork() system call, now we have two processes – parent and child processes.