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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Magic Poster
Message-ID: <7465@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 12:01:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: g.7465
Posted: Mon Oct 12 12:01:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 05:39:38 EDT
References: <1360@aecom.YU.EDU> <5383@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <5383@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) writes:
>In article <1360@aecom.YU.EDU> stevek@aecom.YU.EDU (Steve Kastin) writes:
>>   - the farmer in the window, with the scythe
>He is "reaping".  I've heard or read (but I don't remember where) the term
>"reaping processes" used to describe a program waiting around for its children
>to terminate.

exitted processes between the time the process does the exit()
and the time that the parent process "reaps" them are referred
to as Zombies.  Doesn't a certain mythical figure use a scythe?

I've not seen this poster ... where would I get a copy?
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<---- David Herron,  Local E-Mail Hack,  david@ms.uky.edu, david@ms.uky.csnet
<----                    {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<---- I thought that time was this neat invention that kept everything
<---- from happening at once.  Why doesn't this work in practice?