My Many Girlfriends

Re:My Many Girlfriends by Cthulhu_ on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:06AM (#29823656)

"how to terminate forked children"

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by magoghm on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:23AM (#29824644)

What I love about Unix is that you can talk about pipes blocked by dead children spawned by daemons, and it actually makes sense.

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by bitwize on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:17AM (#29824541)

"Out of memory: Kill process X or sacrifice child"

The "Feed me a stray cat" of kernel error messages.

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by brezelgoring on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:19AM (#29825485)

What's the 'feed me a stray cat' kernel error message? I thought that was just part of the American Psycho lore.

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by bitwize on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:49PM (#29826929)

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/the...

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by wbl on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:31AM (#29823936)

Just be careful to reap the results lest you get zombies. Yes, that's the standard Unix terminology.

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Re:My Many Girlfriends by speed_spread on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:36AM (#29823982)

"purging orphans"

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