[high_density]

hm I regularly massacre processes in my laptop...

[Cthulhu_]

"how to terminate forked children"

[magoghm]

What I love about Unix is that you can talk about pipes blocked by dead children spawned by daemons, and it actually makes sense.

[bitwize]

"Out of memory: Kill process X or sacrifice child"

The "Feed me a stray cat" of kernel error messages.

[brezelgoring]

What's the 'feed me a stray cat' kernel error message? I thought that was just part of the American Psycho lore.

[bitwize]

Well, a panic arose on Twitter when conservatives discovered their crashed smart TVs started demanding the sacrifice of children... must have been all the daemons possessing our computers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/p4v7q3/the...

[wbl]

Just be careful to reap the results lest you get zombies. Yes, that's the standard Unix terminology.

[speed_spread]

"purging orphans"