How to fork or create a subprocess?

[adam.gr...@gmail.com]

I have searched everywhere for the answer to this question, so my apologies if I missed it somewhere on this forum.

I'm looking to create a subprocess when my Golang executable launches. This is no different than calling the fork() function in C.

In fact, the following code represents exactly what I want to do in Go:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


int main() {
 int pid = fork();


 if (pid == 0) {
    printf("This is the child process.\n");
 }
 else {
    printf("This is the parent process.\n");
 }


 return 0;
}

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Adam

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

You can't use fork in multithreaded programs (except to call exec),
and all Go programs are multithreaded.

You can use os/exec to start new programs, however.

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Aram Hăvărneanu