From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 30 16:20:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.nobaloney.net (joshua.nobaloney.net [63.108.93.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE0737B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobaloney.net (adsl-64-170-53-8.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.170.53.8]) (authenticated) by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id fBV0KYf28951 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:20:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3C2FAFF2.C7C5808C@nobaloney.net> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:23:14 -0800 From: Jeff Lasman Organization: nobaloney.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lions and tigers and... chickens? References: <20011229230235.Q46948-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ryan Thompson wrote: > Perhaps more correctly, we should say that when the chicken vfork()s, > nothing really happens, but some normal chicken code gets executed. > Assuming the normal chicken code doesn't change the state of the > chicken, you have two chickens for the price of one. This sounds like quantum chickens to me. Where's Scully when we need him? Jeff -- Jeff Lasman nobaloney.net P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA 92517 voice: (909) 778-9980 * fax: (702) 548-9484 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message