Re: <defunct>: too many from pipe

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 19:24 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
Like a ghost that cannot go on to
the afterlife because it has a terrible secret it must tell someone, the
zombies are hanging on grimly so they can whisper their process return
code into their parents' ear before finally fading away.

What an outstanding description! Clear and nearly literary in its
composition. Did you just make that up yourself? Truly, it should be in
a book somewhere, or somehow immortalized in a FAQ or HOWTO.

What a gem. Really.


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