BABY(1fun)

✨ NAME ✨

baby — create new process from two parents 🫶 like no cap that's literally what it does, bestie, this whole page is BABY(1fun) and we're gonna read it together 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

baby -sex [m|f] [-name name]

that's the whole vibe check. two flags, one dream ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so baby gets initiated when one parent process polls another server process — through a socket connection in the BSD version, or through pipes in the System V implementation 🔌 then it runs at low priority for approximately forty weeks and then terminates with a heavy system load 😭 Most systems require constant monitoring when baby reaches its final stages of execution. fr fr, do not walk away from the terminal at that point 💀

Older implementations of baby did not require both initiating processes to be present at the time of completion. In those versions, the initiating process which was not present was awakened and notified of the results upon completion 🌙 It has since been determined that the presence of both parent processes results in a generally lower system load at completion, and thus current versions of baby expect both parent processes to be active during the final stages. glow-up, honestly 👑

Successful completion of baby results in the creation and naming of a new process 🎀 Parent processes then broadcast messages to all other processes, local and remote, informing them of their new status. it's giving announcement post, and honestly? iconic 📢

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -sex — define the gender of the created process 🌈
• -name — assign the name name to the new process 🎀

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

baby -sex f -name Jacqueline

completed successfully on July 9, 1992 at 9:11pm 🕘✨ Jacqueline's vital statistics: 8 pounds 3 oz, 20 inches, long dark hair 💜 The parent process, Kim Dunbar, is reportedly doing fine 🫶 we love a healthy deploy.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

cigar(6), dump(5), cry(3).

iykyk 🚬😭

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💀 BUGS 💀

Despite its complexity, baby only knows one signal, SIGCHLD (or SIGCLD in the System V implementation), which it uses to contact the parent processes. One or both parent processes must then inspect the baby process to determine the cause of the signal 🔍 no shortcuts, sorry bestie.

The sleep(1) command may not work as expected on either parent process for some time afterward, as each new instance of baby sends intermittent signals to the parent processes which must be handled by the parents immediately 😴➡️😳 so yeah your sleep call is lowkey cancelled.

A baby process will frequently dump core, requiring either or both parent processes to clean up after it 🧹🙈

Despite the reams of available documentation on invoking and maintaining baby, most parent processes are overwhelmed 😭 realest bug note on this whole system, ngl.

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🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

From a man page by Joe Beck, <beck@cs.ualberta.ca>.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this was BABY(1fun) — the manual name folded right up in here so you never lose it, and the footer said BABY(1fun) too, so consider yourself fully version-checked and date-checked ✨🦋 go forth and fork() responsibly, periodt 💅🌸