Hello, I figure there are seven processes. The parent-the parentcreates a child,

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Hello, I figure there are seven processes. The parent-the parentcreates a child, that child creates two children,the parent createsanother child, that child has a child and then the parent createsone more child. In the following program how many processes are createdincluding parent. int main() {    fork( );    fork( );    fork( );    return 0; } Hello, I figure there are seven processes. The parent-the parentcreates a child, that child creates two children,the parent createsanother child, that child has a child and then the parent createsone more child. In the following program how many processes are createdincluding parent. int main() {    fork( );    fork( );    fork( );    return 0; }

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8 Process are created including parent. 3 times fork is called so 2^3 process are created. For the first fork(), Parent creates a child process. so now twoprocess running. For the second fork(). Each parent and child process creates achild process respectively. so overall 4 process. For the third fork(). The parent and 3 child process eachcreates child process respectively. so overall 8 process.

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