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hm I regularly massacre processes in my laptop...

• Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  "how to terminate forked children"
  • wbl 5y ago
    Just be careful to reap the results lest you get zombies. Yes, that's the standard Unix terminology.
  • speed_spread 5y ago
    "purging orphans"
  • bitwize 5y ago
    "Out of memory: Kill process X or sacrifice child" The "Feed me a stray cat" of kernel error messages.
    • brezelgoring 5y ago
      What's the 'feed me a stray cat' kernel error message? I thought that was just part of the American Psycho lore.
      • bitwize 5y ago
        Well, a panic arose on Twitter when conservatives discovered their crashed smart TVs started demanding the sacrifice of children... must have been all the daemons possessing our computers: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/p4v7q3/there_are_daemons_in_the_computer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/p4v7q3/the...
  • magoghm 5y ago
    What I love about Unix is that you can talk about pipes blocked by dead children spawned by daemons, and it actually makes sense.