Usually means: Subordinate process created by parent.
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  1. child process: Dictionary.com
  2. Child process: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. child process: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. child process, Child process: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Child process)

noun:  A child process in computing is a process created by another process (the parent process).


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