Forking Pipe

This is probably obvious to old school Unix hackers but won’t make ANY SENSE AT ALL until I realized that:

1. When fork gets called without a block it spawns off a child process.
2. Which means that the if statement will get run twice, once on the parent process and the other on the child process.
3. if fork evaluates to true in the parent process since fork returns the process ID of the child procecess.
4. In the child process if fork goes through the else statement instead because fork always returns nil in a child process.
5. The child process will be left hanging in a zombie state untill Process.wait gets called in the parent process.
6. You can’t write to a pipe until you close the read port and you can’t read from a pipe until you close the write port.