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Fork
(1) A stream of data that can be opened and accessed individually under a common filename. The Macintosh Standard and Extended file systems store a separate data fork and a resource fork as part of every file; data in each fork can be accessed and manipulated independently of the other. (2) In BSD, fork is a system call that creates a new process.
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