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To: little jeremiah

“What does “child processes” mean?”

In a computer program a process is the job that the code runs to do a task. A child process is a process started by the parent process and typically inherits the parents environment. An orphaned process is a child process whose parent has died, and a zombie process is an unresponsive process


1,618 posted on 11/01/2018 9:24:13 PM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper; grey_whiskers

Thanks... So Brave has a bunch of offspring programs that block stuff but use up a lot of memory. Am I right?


1,619 posted on 11/01/2018 9:27:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)
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