spawn
<operating system> 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.
(1995-03-28)
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