prefork

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ fork.

Verb

prefork (third-person singular simple present preforks, present participle preforking, simple past and past participle preforked)

  1. (computing, transitive) To fork (a process) in advance, so that additional similar processes are immediately available if required later.
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