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sjvn

Operating system internals aren't nearly as bloody as you might, despite what's in the table of contents.
4 September at 1:30 | Open on mastodon.social
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Coach Pāṇini ®
Michael K Johnson

@sjvn It seemed funny at the time. Neither ewt nor I had kids then. 😬

But maybe our kids are old enough to find this funny, and not yet old enough to find it cringe? 🤔

4 September at 2:38 | Open on social.makerforums.info
Karthikeyan A K
sjvn

@mindaslab It's from the second edition of Eric Troan and Mike Johnson's Linux Application Development. It's dated now, but back in its day, 2004, it was essential reading for Linux developers.

4 September at 6:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Bill Statler
mxk

@sjvn I miss the chapters about reaping, zombies and killing all your offsprings at once.

4 September at 7:52 | Open on hachyderm.io
Andre

@sjvn dumping Core is usually known as defecation

4 September at 8:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Dirk Haun

@sjvn @isotopp I‘m overhearing a conversation between colleagues right now where they are discussing WAR files and killing sessions. IT is brutal 🙉

4 September at 11:37 | Open on tinycities.net
Alexander Shendi

@sjvn

Is "dumping core" the same as vomiting?

🤮🤮🤮

4 September at 12:30 | Open on rollenspiel.social
wakame

@sjvn

"Don't worry, the kernel child reaper only kills orphans."

:blobcatsweat:

4 September at 14:48 | Open on tech.lgbt
SchwarzeLocke

@sjvn #alt4you Photo of the table of contents of a book:

9.4 Process Primitives
9.4.1 Having Children
9.4.2 Watching Your Children Die
9.4.3 Running New Programs
9.4.4 A Bit of History: `vfork()`
9.4.5 Killing Yourself
9.4.6 Killing Others
9.4.7 Dumping Core

4 September at 17:15 | Open on ohai.social
To infinity and Beyond

@sjvn reminded me that once I tried to type “man kill” in my terminal, but ended up typing it in my browser… Definitely NOT the instructions I’m not looking for

4 September at 17:32 | Open on alive.bar
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