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

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

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

  PS> At 03:12 PM 3/15/01 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
  >> >>>>> "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.

  PS> On the right track :-)

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

  PS> Well there's some license there, but it could also be true for classes 
  PS> overloading stringification.  "overload" is not part of the answer :-)

well, no one else has tried to answer this recently. what is your
translation?

uri

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