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title: "How “process” is created in Erlang?"  
description: "How “process” is created in Erlang?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-06-25  
updated: 2020-09-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2658/how-process-is-created-in-erlang  
category: "erlang"  
tags: ["functional programming", "concurrent programming", "erlang"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How “process” is created in Erlang?

The process is created by calling spawn, and spawn forms a new process and returns the pid.• Spawn (Module, Name, Args ) -> pid ()\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

The process is created by calling spawn, and spawn forms a new process and returns the pid.• Spawn (Module, Name, Args ) -> pid ()\


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