Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:50:08 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Baby(1) Message-ID: <200204082251.g38Mp0B37796@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:10:15 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20020408110809.0382e4d0@nospam.lariat.org>
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In message <4.3.2.7.2.20020408110809.0382e4d0@nospam.lariat.org>, Brett
Glass w
rites:
> At 04:53 PM 4/6/2002, Danny Howard wrote:
>
> >Man pages suck.
>
> No, it's baby(1) that sucks, actually. ;-)
So do babies suck, well in a different sense. (Bad joke).
Don't blame me for the man page I didn't write it. Given all of it's
flaws, it's still cute.
>
> > Or, is it naming conventions.
>
> That, too. They need WOman pages as well as just man pages. ;-)
And I thought I had a bad sense of humor... :)
>
> >Baby terminates at forty
> >weeks? More like it takes forty weeks to fork and finally begin
> >consuming some serious resources.
>
> At which point, it disables sleep(1).
Not entirely. The child process does sleep every couple of hours.
Much of this depends on the child processes input and output patterns.
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Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766
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