Question

Which system call will you use to get the parent of the process?

Answer 1

In Operating System, the fork() system call is used by a process to create another process. The process that used the fork() system call is the parent process and process consequently created is known as the child process.

Answer 2

fork() in C. Fork system call is used for creating a new process, which is called child process, which runs concurrently with the process that makes the fork() call (parent process).