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How does fork() return for child process

I know that fork() returns differently for the child and parent processes, but I’m unable to find information on how this happens. How does the child process receive the return value 0 from fork? And what is the difference in regards to the call stack? As I understand it, for the parent it goes something like this: parent process–invokes fork–>system_call–calls

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