FoRK is one of the most
eclectic mailing lists I've been on. FoRK stands for Friends of Rohit Khare. All kinds of
folks have been on and off the list. Their
names are too numerous to list here.
Their motto being SHOW ME THE BITS!.
Also, fork is a posix function call that creates a child process that differs from the parent process only in its PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations are set to 0. File locks and pending signals are not inherited.
When I was taking Operating Systems at Boston College, we were told we were not allowed to run our homeworks involving fork on the main server--we had to run them on the local workstations (people had an uncanny ability to stick their fork in an infinite loop). We furthered this restriction by telling people there was an Adult corner of the computer lab--and only there were you able to fork without regard for other people.