SPAWN


Meaning of SPAWN in English

< operating system > To create a child process in a multitasking operating system . E.g. Unix 's fork system call or one of the spawn() library routines provided by most MS-DOS , Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers - spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.

(1995-03-28)

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