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From: mcg@sfmin.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Magic Poster
Message-ID: <865@sfmin.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 04:58:47 GMT
References: <1360@aecom.YU.EDU> <5383@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <68@quincy.UUCP> <18660@amdcad.AMD.COM>
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> In article <68@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
> >In article <5383@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) writes:
> >| 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.
> >| 
> >
> >Hmmm ... thats an interesting thought, although I thought it was something
> >to do with "windows", like "clearing" the window?  
> 
> What about "cut"?
> 
> 	-- Tim Olson
> 	Advanced Micro Devices
> 	(tim@amdcad.amd.com)

Oh, come on.  It's a kernel hacker!
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