BABY(1) USER COMMANDS BABY(1)
NAME
baby - create new process from two parents
SYNOPSIS
baby -sex m|f [ -name name ]
DESCRIPTION
Baby is 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. Baby runs at a 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.
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 generally lower system loads at the
completion, and thus current versions of baby expect both parent
processes to be active during the final stages.
Successful completion of baby(1) 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.
OPTIONS
-sex............define the gender of the created process
-name.........assign the name name to the new process
EXAMPLES
% baby -sex f -name Jacqueline
% completed successfully on July 9, 1992 at 9:11PM
% vital statistics: 8 pounds 3oz, 20 inches, dark hair
% The parent process, Kim Dunbar, is reportedly doing fine
SEE ALSO
cigar(6),dump(5),cry(3)
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 signal's cause.
The sleep 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.
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.
BABY BUG REPORT:
Mr. Dunbar distributed the man pages for baby(1) this morning. I wish
to confirm some known bugs, give possible solutions, and to warn him
of several undocumented bugs.
We have also experienced the following undesirable behavior (as
documented in the man pages) following the use of the baby(1)
command using the syntax shown below:
baby -sex f -name Beth (in 1989)
baby -sex m -name Daniel (in 1991)
For the first 1.552e+07 seconds after the child process was started,
neither parent process was able to execute the sleep command when
the argument exceeded 600. While this bug was noted in the baby
man page, the man page clearly states that the child process will
only send SIGCHLD signals. Experience demonstrated that the
child process sent SIGURG signals as well as SIGCHLD signals,
even though the conditions requiring urgent processind did not
exist with the child process.
Extensive research indicated that most signals were generally related
to an I/O problem with the child process. In almost all cases, the
signals indicated the child process either required input, or the
output bin was full. In the case of the output bin full, the condition
can be easily detected with the diapercheck(1) command using the
-smell qualifier.
However, in some cases, the child process continued to send the
SIGURG signals for unknown reasons after the I/O problem was
rectified. In these cases the kill(1) command was considered as
a possible alternative, but was considered unacceptable by the
system administrator.
Additionally, we found that the first child process (-name Beth) began
executing whine(2) continuously for no apparent reason beginning 1.5
years after the process startup. This condition appears to be ongoing
even though the process has been running for 3.5 years. Unfortunately,
it appears that this bug is getting steadily worse. The condition
surrounding the bug is still being investigated, and no solution has been
discovered to date.
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Dear all !!
I'm here with one more problem. This might not be toatlly related
to Linux (other than myself using gcc on Linux), but I'm a bit
confused with this problem. So plz help.
The question :
While balancing a disturbed AVL tree, we normally adapt the
bottom-up approach (This is the only approach, I guess), ie, we
start by balancing the lowermost subtree in the tree and go on to
balance the very next upper tree. Now, my questions is that, is
it okay to rebalance an already balanced subtree in order to
achieve proper balance of it's parent tree? In other words, if
the balance of a subtree is within the aceptable limits, can we
still rearrange the tree?
Hope ppl on the list won't mind this OT question.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Regs,
Kinjal Sonpal
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Hi guys,
I got my cable net connection yesterday.
The client spftware used by my cable wala is cyberoam
client.
i found out one for linux.
But it says authentication failure
check username and password......
I have made appropriate changes in the conf files.
Any body knows how to make cyberoam client work on
windows .........
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i do appreciate your prompt reply about this mail but you didnt pick my
word I am well aware about SAMBA but things which I am looking for is just
install one protocol and u r through.
You dont have to configure any thing. You tell me how much configuration is
involved in getting SAMBA up I know it. how can you aspect one dum user of
windows network to do all this configuration.
So I am in search of one protocol which will help me to minimize this hard
efforts and your desktop is on highway straight-away
nici
>From: Philip S Tellis <philip.tellis(a)iname.com>
>Reply-To: linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in
>To: <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
>Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] To be a part of the game you have to play game
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:36:58 +0530 (IST)
>
>On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, nici bhatt wrote:
>
> > so first what i am looking for is protocol the way we look entire
> > network in win95/win98/w2k that is uses netbui protocol if you
> > remove this and you will see nothing so is there anybody who can
> > contribute to this development on linux where by you can easily plug
> > your desktop in this kind of protocol and look around full network.
>
>It's called SaMBa, and there's a client called Linneighbourhood that
>acts like network neighbourhood in windows. Allows you to brows the
>entire windows network, as well as other samba servers. Needs a little
>more work though.
>
>
> > i know this will not help much because your file system will be
> > different so it's of no help but still this can help us to the
> > protocol level where all services talking to each other in windows
> > network and you have that, then your work is much simple to push the
> > desktop in this kind of network. We can work out at file system
> > level at second stage.
>
>It has nothing to do with your filesystem. Over the network, there is
>no filesystem. Samba takes care of everything.
>
>Philip
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Hi there,
Just wanted to ask about how do we boot linux using the windows
2000 boot loader. One way is mentioned in the linuxdocs that we
extract first 512 bytes using dd= .... command, and copy this
image to the windows drive , adding it to the boot.ini. but this
doesnt work et al. So if anyone pl. can help on this.....
Regards,
Abhishek Gupta.
Hi there,
Just wanted to ask about how do we boot linux using the windows
2000 boot loader. One way is mentioned in the linuxdocs that we
extract first 512 bytes using dd= .... command, and copy this
image to the windows drive , adding it to the boot.ini. but this
doesnt work et al. So if anyone pl. can help on this.....
Regards,
Abhishek Gupta.
I suggest is, we can have a big Workshop/Seminar of one full day. Our
volunteers will visit different colleges and invite students and also
professors for the workshop.
Volunteers will give a brief Linux introduction at the colleges and
invite them for advanced topics ( Custom Distro, Programming, Linux
Localization, Server Setups etc..) at the Seminar.
Having seminars at different colleges is very time consuming, we can
at the most have only 2-3 seminars a month, by the time we reach 6-7
colleges, their regular exams will be getting started and also with the
number of volunteers we have, reaching 6 colleges in 2 months is a big
task.
The Seminar/Workshop can be held at any college auditorium, or may be at
HBCSE.
When I had taken a lecture on Linux at Patkar college, Goregaon,
students there were more keen to know the alternatives to MS Applications
and how could they implement it.
Giving them a customised distro wouldn't be helpfull if they don't even
know the applications available in Linux. I support the development of
customised Distro, instead we can involve interested students from
colleges in this process who in turn will be promoting it in their
respective circles.
Having a common seminar for everyone will help us present in a better way.
There won't be a time barrier as when doing at colleges. This way we can
target large and interested audience.
We can invite private institutions also and can have sponsors for the seminar.
Some volunteers can go to commercial organisations for sponsorship.
Bhushan Tiwari
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Hi guys,
I got my cable net connection yesterday.
The client spftware used by my cable wala is cyberoam
client.
i found out one for linux.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberoam/
But it says authentication failure
check username and password......
I have made appropriate changes in the conf files.
Any body knows how to make cyberoam client work on
Linux.........
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Hi
my subject make's it more clear what my intension is. and that is if you
want to push linux as major desktop os then you have to play the game the
way your competitor play.
so first what i am looking for is protocol the way we look entire network in
win95/win98/w2k that is uses netbui protocol if you remove this and you will
see nothing so is there anybody who can contribute to this development on
linux where by you can easily plug your desktop in this kind of protocol and
look around full network.
i know this will not help much because your file system will be different so
it's of no help but still this can help us to the protocol level where all
services talking to each other in windows network and you have that, then
your work is much simple to push the desktop in this kind of network. We can
work out at file system level at second stage.
So is there anyone who can contribute to protocol level development or some
one interested in such idiot work I know this sounds like crazy idea but
some how I faced this problem and I want to overcome this.
So anybody there ..?
nici
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