Operating Systems Books Are Wild

Operating systems books are on another level Contents 9.4 Process Primitives 9.4.1 Having Children 9.4.2 Watching Your Children Die 9.4.3 Running New Programs 9.4.4 A Bit of History: vfork() 9.4.5 Killing Yourself 9.4.6 Killing Others 9.4.7 Dumping Core 9.5 Simple Children

A screenshot shows a page from an operating systems textbook with a table of contents containing ominous chapter titles such as “Watching Your Children Die,” “Killing Yourself,” and “Killing Others.” The joke is that technical programming terminology sounds dramatically violent and unsettling when read like ordinary language, making operating systems books seem unusually dark. People send this as a reaction to the grim humor and intimidating complexity of computer science. EN: A screenshot shows a page from an operating systems textbook with a table of contents containing ominous chapter titles such as “Watching Your Children Die,” “Killing Yourself,” and “Killing Others.” The joke is that technical programming terminology sounds dramatically violent and unsettling when read like ordinary language, making operating systems books seem unusually dark. People send this as a reaction to the grim humor and intimidating complexity of computer science.

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