Re: hit the key, kill the program, fatal error, bomb out, etc.

Subject: Re: hit the key, kill the program, fatal error, bomb out, etc.
From: Dean Elzinga <elzinga -at- INFERENCE -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 17:44:42 PDT

I remember getting a message on an earlier version of Sun OS, "Waiting
for children to die."

--Dean Elzinga

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> From: Rikki Nyman <nymanr -at- TRG -dot- TRGLINK -dot- COM>

> 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.*


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