fork() and output

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This isn’t quite what you thought originally. The output buffer is not shared – when you execute the fork, both processes get a copy of the same buffer. So, after you fork, both processes eventually flush the buffer and print the contents to screen separately.

This only happens because cout is buffered IO. If you used cerr, which is not buffered, you should only see the message one time, pre-fork.

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