I don't believe this is correct. It will just spawn green threads, which are neither system threads nor processes. You'd really want to use syscall.ForkExec:

I don't believe this is correct. It will just spawn green threads, which are neither system threads nor processes. You'd really want to use syscall.ForkExec: https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ForkExec https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/#ForkExec EDIT: thinking about this further, I don't think that would be right either, as state from the process won't come over with the fork. So maybe there isn't a way?