open_master_socket ???

[Auge Mike]

/* open the master server socket and start waiting for new clients */
open_master_socket

Who can explain for me the task of the above function in more words?

Why we need to do fork() inside this function, although the parent of this 
process will terminate after the child do call acquire_lock()?

Thanx

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