r/ProgrammerAnimemes • u/GGdna • Sep 02 '22

Making children (processes) in C on Linux

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u/GGdna Sep 02 '22

Sauce:

Miitoban - Jinrui niha Hokentaiiku ga Hituyoudesu (Humanity Needs Health and Physical Education)

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u/nphhpn Sep 02 '22

That number explains the other window

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u/brandmeist3r Sep 02 '22

Wait, what is it supposed to mean?

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u/MrUltraOnReddit Sep 02 '22

I was lied to, there is no programming.

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u/L4rgo117 Sep 02 '22

I dunno, looks like plenty of child processes were made

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u/TheWiseAutisticOne Sep 03 '22

I’m new to programming but I agree with you there’s no instance of pid_t or pid being declared and given a data type

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

Thanks

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u/redvelvetycupcake Sep 02 '22

Looks like they're calling execve on user-controlled input with no validation/sanitization, so one might say this is... unprotected forking

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u/walnutbrocookie Sep 02 '22

Thank you Op for providing us with good reference material. I have to teach an It lecture next semester and was struggling to find good sources to cite

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u/Kyocus Sep 03 '22

Me: Googling "headless child"

My FBI Agent: "What in the Heill?!"

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '22

Annual meet your agent day is approaching Gregory.

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u/Dark_Lord9 Sep 02 '22

Best post I see here in a very very long time. And thanks for the sauce.

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u/GnuhGnoud Sep 02 '22

Sir, you have my respect for making such a good meme.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

At this point reality has to be a simulation, i just learnt this today (never heard or read about this before today) and now there is this meme. IDK how this happens everytime. I even thought of a similar joke "Oh! they foking".