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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:53:54 -0800
From:      Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com>
To:        Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Baby(1)
Message-ID:  <20020406145354.D17676@pianosa.catch22.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204060500.g3650sM84275@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:00:14PM -0800
References:  <200204060500.g3650sM84275@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:00:14PM -0800, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote:

>      BABY is initiated when one parent process polls another server
> process through a socket connection (BSD) or through pipes in the
> System V implementation. BABY runs at a low priority for approximately
> 40 weeks then terminates with heavy system load. Most systems require
> constant monitoring when BABY reaches its final stages of execution.

Man pages suck.  Or, is it naming conventions.  Baby terminates at forty
weeks?  More like it takes forty weeks to fork and finally begin
consuming some serious resources.

But, well, anyways ...

-d

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