Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ben Finney wrote: >> > \ "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | >> > `\ that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | >> > _o__) termination of their C programs." -- Robert Firth | >> [ ... ] in many cases successful >> termination of their C programs would have been unlikely. >Yet historically proven: the 'imperium' process they were running >terminated many centuries ago. > >Or did it fork and exec a different process?
Pretty much. Except they would argue that the child process (Byzantium) never exec'd. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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