How to use fork() in unix? Why not something of the form fork(pointerToFunctionToRun)?

Question

I am having some trouble understanding how to use Unix\'s fork(). I am used to, when in need of parallelization, spawining threads in my application. It\'s always s

Answer 1

Letting the difference between spawning a process and a thread set aside for a second: Basically, fork() is a more fundamental primitive. While SpawnNewThread has to do some background work to get the program counter in the right spot, fork does no such work, it just copies (or virtually copies) your program memory and continues the counter.