On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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
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