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> One of our programmers has a fairly gruesome perspective on violent
terminology:
> *On the topic of kill, there exist terms in multi-tasking operating systems
> like UNIX where parent processes kill their children and so forth.
> If a parent process dies without killing its children processes, these
> children processes become orphans. I have seen an online jargon
> dictionary once before, and I will tell you how to get to it once I find
> it again.*
