i used ideone to write code for the problem CAPPLE of DEC14 during the start of the contest, and after 20 mins of submitting my code, i noticed i had mistakenly left the code as public, and unfortunately, it had been forked twice!! This could be a possible case of cheating and could result in the deletion of my account or reduction in rating. Kindly suggest any steps to prevent this…
It is a very careless mistake on my part and i would be thankful if i get help from codechef on this issue…
hey @gvaibhav21
mail your complaint at [email protected].
and please make an ideone account and use it only after setting visibility mode to private.
Hope you may not face any problem… Best of luck… 
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hi gvaibhav, Kindly send your case to [email protected] and we will take it into consideration at the time of plagiarism detection for DEC14.
what is meant by forked???
to copy you can say , actually the term is copied from unix processes .
but how can he say it it has been forked twice ?
fork() duplicates a process so after calling fork there are actually 2 instances of a program running.
that is what @gvaibhav21 meant by forked twice.
it is written there on ideone , the number of times code is forked ,
every newinstance of a code is created by fork .
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fork is same word as for processes forking, but this is more like Git fork command, but I cannot be sure if this is real technical solution…
read it here :-
That’s for sure not this type of fork…
that is the same fork , how many instance of the same code is active is shown by the number of times code is forked
No, they are not the same. There are plenty of definitions for the word ‘fork’. These are the two in question:
Fork (system call), a method of creating new processes by splitting running ones.
Fork (software development), when a piece of software or other work is split into two branches or variations of development.
As for the question, emailing them and submitting the users email/account that forked your code would clear you.
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we are comparing system call fork to the ideone fork (which have almost the same reference),
not the system call fork and git fork .
i dont want to say they are same , i just wanted to say that the fork word is derived from here and they work similarly , i think now i am clear
i can see that this discussion has taken quite a different turn :). Indeed, @boldaslove is correct. fork (here) means simply that a copy of a code has been generated for using seperately. An new & independent URL is given to the forked copy of the code.