Quote: Mach tasks form a tree structure defined by task creation; controls how memory is shared

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[Mach] Tasks are related to one another in … read-write, copy-on-write or not at all by future … creating a child task with a single thread … and all memory shared copy-on-write.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: a task can mark regions of virtual memory as read-write, copy-on-write, or not inherited by child tasks

Quote: a Unix fork operation is equivalent to a Mach task creating a child task with all memory copy-on-write

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