> just as we don't get offended by `parent.kill(child)` I think this is an excellent analogy. The Linux OOM killer even has a log message about sacrificing chi

> just as we don't get offended by `parent.kill(child)` I think this is an excellent analogy. The Linux OOM killer even has a log message about sacrificing children: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282155/what-is-the-out-of-memory-message-sacrifice-child https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282155/what-is-the-... And that, AFAIK, isn't part of the Linux kernel API/ABI, so it could be changed more easily than Redis' SLAVEOF command could. But it's clear from context what it's referring to.