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- Subject: manual pages for baby
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:58:39 GMT
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- BABY(1) USER COMMANDS BABY(1)
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- NAME
- BABY - create new process from two parent processes
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- SYNOPSIS
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- BABY [ -sex ] [ -name ]
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- DESCRIPTION
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- BABY is initiated when one parent process polls another server
- process through a socket connection (BSD) or through pipes in the
- System V implementation. BABY runs at a low priority for approximately
- 40 weeks then terminates with heavy system load. Most systems require
- constant monitoring when BABY reaches its final stages of execution.
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- Older implementations of BABY required that the initiating
- process not be present at the time of completion. In these versions
- the initiating process is awakened and notified of the results upon
- completion. Modern versions allow both parent processes to be active
- during the final stages of BABY.
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- OPTIONS
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- -sex
- option indicating type of process created.
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- -name
- process identification to be attached to the new process.
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- RESULT
- Successful execution of the BABY(1) results in new process
- being created and named. Parent processes then typically
- broadcast messages to all other processes informing them of their
- new status in the system.
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- BUGS
- The SLEEP command may not work on either parent processes for some
- time afterward, as new BABY processes constantly send interrupts
- which must be handled by one or more parent.
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- BABY processes upon being created may frequently dump
- in /tmp requiring /tmp to be cleaned out frequently by one
- of the parent processes.
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- SEE ALSO
- sleep(1) dump(8) cry(3)
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