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5:36pm Sun 30th Aug, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> I thought that C language is Operating System independent, meaning that it can be > compiled on most systems. I don't know, please let me know if I'm going wrong. I read it > in the book that is prescribed on this website.

Yes, C is OS independent, meaning that the language makes no strong demands of the OS on which its programs run. But that's not related to the question - fork() is not a function defined as part of the standard C library, it's a system-call (function) provided by some OSs. Similarly, a C program, compiled and running on Windows, may be able to call a function named Start_Microsoft_Office(), but that's unrelated to whether or not C is OS independent.

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