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This program is about the POSIX fork() syscall. Zig favors standard library functions std.process.spawn() and std.process.run() functions instead of using OS specific functions like fork(). The spawn and run functions use appropriate OS specific functions underneath and the code we write can stay OS agnostic. As we already saw the spawn function in blog 13, let's look at run function in this blog. The run function allows the programmer to have more control over the child process than spawn. L...