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Re:On Redis master-slave terminology by evil-olive on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:51PM (#17929916)
> 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-...

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.

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