[TUHS] In some cults...

John P. Linderman jpl.jpl at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 21:15:59 AEST 2025


On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Dan Cross wrote:
>
> > Meta note: I think Dave meant a quote in a comment in Unix somewhere,
> > not the origin of the True Name myth.  :-)
>
> And you win the lollipop :-)  'Twas the "ps(1)" command...
>
> -- Dave
>

On a faux-cultural note, Arthur C Clark wrote the "Nine Billion Names of
God" in the 50s. When you got all 9 billion names, EVERYBODY got killed.
9 billion would have been more than adequate to hit all possible process
IDs. -- jpl
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