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Re:Ask HN - Why was there ever, fork() ? by Aegean on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @09:25AM (#864044)
So does the widely known OS called linux. man clone
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Re:Ask HN - Why was there ever, fork() ? by vinutheraj on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:08AM (#864292)
Yea but I had heard somewhere that the linux clone was based on Plan 9 rfork.

"FreeBSD's rfork(2) and Linux's clone(2) system calls are modeled on Plan 9's rfork(2)"

source - http://catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html

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