11 Feb
2025
11 Feb
'25
11:15 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Dan Cross wrote:
On a faux-cultural note, Arthur C Clark wrote the "Nine Billion Names of
God" in the 50s. When you got all 9 billion names, EVERYBODY got killed.
9 billion would have been more than adequate to hit all possible process
IDs. -- jpl
Meta note: I think Dave meant a quote in a
comment in Unix somewhere,
not the origin of the True Name myth. :-)
And you win the lollipop :-) 'Twas the "ps(1)" command...
-- Dave