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• orphan n. [Unix] A process whose parent has died; one inherited by init(1). Compare zombie.
• zombie: [UNIX] n. A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a `wait(2)' for it yet).
  These can be seen in `ps(1)' listings occasionally....
• zombie n. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet).
  These can be seen in ps(1) listings occasionally. Compare orphan....
• parent message: n. What a {followup} follows up. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
  "There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• Godzillagram: /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1.
  A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe....
• Perl: /perl/ [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] n. An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall &l...
• awk: 1. n. [UNIX techspeak] An interpreted language for massaging text data developed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan (the name derives from their initials).
  It is characterized by C-like syntax, a declaration-free approach to variable typing and declarations, associative arrays, and field-oriented text processing....