fork.2: Note treatment of default timer slack value on fork()

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2012-10-27 06:40:07 +02:00
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.\" Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
.\" parent and child.
.\"
.TH FORK 2 2012-05-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH FORK 2 2012-10-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fork \- create a child process
.SH SYNOPSIS
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setting is reset so that the child does not receive a signal
when its parent terminates.
.IP *
The default timer slack value is set to the parent's
current timer slack value.
See the description of
.BR PR_SET_TIMERSLACK
in
.BR prctl (2).
.IP *
Memory mappings that have been marked with the
.BR madvise (2)
.B MADV_DONTFORK