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spawn

To launch another program from the current program. The child program is spawned from the parent program.

spawn

1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs

2. Botany the nontechnical name for mycelium

spawn [spȯn]

(botany)

Mycelium used for initiating mushroom propagation.

(zoology)

The collection of eggs deposited by aquatic animals, such as fish.

To produce or deposit eggs or discharge sperm; applied to aquatic animals.

(operating system)

spawn - To create a child process in a multitasking operating system. E.g. Unix's fork system call or one of the spawn() library routines provided by most MS-DOS, Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers - spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.

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