From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 8 15:52:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6C837B41D for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id PAA01243; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:51:23 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda01237; Mon Apr 8 15:51:15 2002 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g38Mp5j12550; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UNKNOWN(10.1.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdn12537; Mon Apr 8 15:51:00 2002 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g38Mp0B37796; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204082251.g38Mp0B37796@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdm37772; Mon Apr 8 15:50:08 2002 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Brett Glass Cc: Danny Howard , Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Baby(1) In-Reply-To: Message from Brett Glass of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:10:15 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20020408110809.0382e4d0@nospam.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:50:08 -0700 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 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. Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, CITS Ministry of Management Services Province of BC FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message