[net.suicide] Dead babies in UNIX?

csc (12/11/82)

(I wanted to sent this to net.db, but it wasn't in our ngfile...)

	Some found poetry, from the version 6 kernel ("sys1.c"):

/*
 * Release resources.
 * Save u. area for parent to look at.
 * Enter zombie state.
 * Wake up parent and init processes,
 * and dispose of children.
 */
exit(rv)
	.
	.
	.
/*
 * Wait system call.
 * Search for a terminated (zombie) child,
 * finally lay it to rest, and collect its status.
 * Look also for stopped (traced) children,
 * and pass back status from them.
 */
wait()

	Even dead babies can be found in UNIX!

	Not afraid to submit to the silliest of newsgroups,
	Jan Gray ...watmath!csc

franka (12/13/82)

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tekcad!franka    Dec 13 09:58:00 1982

	This move of information on dead babies to net.suicide is VERY
obnoxious! If you want to do something constructive, instead of sending
items on dead babies to net.suicide (most of whose readers also subscribe
to net.db), send them to net.general. Maybe your system administrator (who
must be an asshole to turn off net.db) will turn net.db back on.
	Net.suicide is for suicides only. The only dead baby info that I
want to see is if a baby actually takes his own life!
					Deadeningly yours,
					Frank Adrian

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