program for parent process waits for the status of child process

#include"myHeader.h"
int data=10;
main()
{
int status;
if(fork()==0)
{
printf("data in child process:%d\n",data);
sleep(5);
printf("child exiting...\n");
}
else
{
printf("data in parent process:%d\n",data);
wait(&status);
printf("parent exiting....\n");
//sleep(2);
}
}

OutPut:

madan@madan-Lenovo-G570:~/madan/osconcepts$ cc ex23.c
madan@madan-Lenovo-G570:~/madan/osconcepts$ ./a.out
data in parent process:10
data in child process:10
child exiting...
parent exiting....

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