10 Feb
2025
10 Feb
'25
9 p.m.
... it is possible to kill a person if you know his true name.
I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
V5 or thereabouts?
-- Dave
10 Feb
10 Feb
9:09 p.m.
On Feb 10, 2025, at 16:00, Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
... it is possible to kill a person if you know his true name.
I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
V5 or thereabouts?
—Dave
Here’s a stackexchange page about it.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1724/where-did-the-idea-of-a…
9:56 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM Lawrence Stewart <stewart(a)serissa.com> wrote:
Meta note: I think Dave meant a quote in a comment in Unix somewhere,
not the origin of the True Name myth. :-)
- Dan C.
On Feb 10,
2025, at 16:00, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
... it is possible to kill a person if you know his true name.
I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
V5 or thereabouts?
Here’s a stackexchange page about it.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1724/where-did-the-idea-of-a…
10 Feb
10 Feb
10:14 p.m.
Shriekback - "Gunning for the Buddha"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG92w1SfqI
https://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/670
Erik
10:22 p.m.
On Monday, February 10th, 2025 at 2:14 PM, Erik E. Fair <fair-tuhs(a)netbsd.org>
wrote:
Shriekback - "Gunning for the Buddha"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG92w1SfqI
https://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/670
Erik
Looks to be ps(I) introduced in V4:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/man/man1/ps.1
The quote is describing the fields printed, among them:
"The process unique number (as in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if
you know its true name)."
- Matt G.
10:27 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, Dave Horsfall wrote:
... it is possible to kill a person if you know his
true name.
I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
V5 or thereabouts?
v5 ps manual (v5man.pdf page 94)
The process unique number (as in certain cults it is possible to kill a
process if you know its true name).
v7 usr/man/man1/ps.1
.TP
PID
The process ID of the process; as in certain cults it is possible to kill a process
if you know its true name.
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