Multiple child process

Question

can someone help me about how to create multiple child processes which have the same parent in order to do \"some\" part of particular job?

for example, an external

Answer 1

If you want to launch several forks, you should do it recursively. This is because you must call fork from the parent process. Otherwise, if you launch a second fork, you will duplicate both parent and first child process. Here's an example:

void forker(int nprocesses)
{
    pid_t pid;

    if(nprocesses > 0)
    {
        if ((pid = fork()) < 0)
        {
            perror("fork");
        }
        else if (pid == 0)
        {
            //Child stuff here
            printf("Child %d end\n", nprocesses);
        }
        else if(pid > 0)
        {
            //parent
            forker(nprocesses - 1);
        }
    }
}