CHAPTER 14
Child Processes & OS Workloads
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spawn(), exec(), execFile() & fork()
How Node.js starts child processes, where parent and child state split, and when to use spawn(), exec(), execFile(), or fork().
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13 moreCHAPTER 01Node.js Architecture4 subchaptersCHAPTER 02Buffers4 subchaptersCHAPTER 03Streams6 subchaptersCHAPTER 04File System5 subchaptersCHAPTER 05Process & OS4 subchaptersCHAPTER 06The Module System5 subchaptersCHAPTER 07Async Patterns & Control Flow6 subchaptersCHAPTER 08Runtime Platform APIs & Tooling5 subchaptersCHAPTER 09Network Fundamentals with Node.js7 subchaptersCHAPTER 10HTTP Servers, Clients & Proxies7 subchaptersCHAPTER 11TLS, HTTPS & HTTP/26 subchaptersCHAPTER 12API Design, Contracts & Frameworks7 subchaptersCHAPTER 13Realtime & Streaming APIs5 subchapters