spawn

n : the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}]

2: emit spawn, of fish; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

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.

(1995-03-28)