Re: [FWP] Kill 'em all and let God sort it out

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:

  PS> Having utterly failed to crack Schwern's conundrum, the only thing
  PS> to do is pose one of my own, this one evaluating to an IMHO more
  PS> familiar quotation:

  PS> fork ? exit : POSIX::setsid && (grep { $_ eq ref } @ARGV)[-1]

my first guess is children should be seen and not heard. but i can't
figure out the mapping to the code.

the setsid call makes the child have no terminal so it can't be heard
from.

$_ eq ref will only be true for $_ = ''. where that fits is unknown to
me.

uri

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