hm I regularly massacre processes in my laptop...

Cthulhu_ · on Jan 6, 2022

"how to terminate forked children"

magoghm · on Jan 6, 2022

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

bitwize · on Jan 6, 2022

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

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

brezelgoring · on Jan 6, 2022

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

bitwize · on Jan 6, 2022

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...

wbl · on Jan 6, 2022

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

speed_spread · on Jan 6, 2022

"purging orphans"