Question

After fork(), parent and child continue executing. In a typical modern Unix implementation, what memory behavior occurs?

A All pages are immediately copied.
B Pages are initially shared using copy-on-write until a write requires a private copy.
C The child has no shared mappings with the parent.
D Only executable pages are copied; data pages stay permanently shared.
E The parent permanently gives memory ownership to the child.
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