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Question: Including the initial parent process, how many processes are created by the program? And what...

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Question: Including the initial parent process, how manyprocesses are created by the program? And what is the value of ibefore each process terminates? Please draw the parent-childprocess hierarchy to justify your answer.

#include

#include

int main() {

          int i =0;

          if(fork() == 0) {

                   ++i;

                    if (fork() != 0)

                            i = 3;

                    else

++i;

       fork();

         }   else   {

                     i = 5;

                     if (fork() == 0)

                                   ++i;

          }

          return 0;

}

I could really use a longer explanation of this problem. I haveseen the answer but I still don't really understand how to get tothe answer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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This program creates 6 processes Each process terminates whenit encounters return 0 so printing the valueof i just before that would give me the finalvalue of i for that process before the processexits so    See Answer
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