From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 21:41:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1148616A401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89FE13C48A for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so447848ana for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:41:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=fFxGMwR6tBPw+bosjnXDBkibhg2fWFyulSbkWIgIdgq580FEZsVdhmXaShXxKV14b9z46uaXmBvpras9rwkBXxfTQag5ZmNqYCEfso0AkMpig6rcKq5nXZ2tCi3iQeK3DtYy6w9tFIPwcl1Lk9P34Y1TuhiiQhfbJWbDSD8x7Wo= Received: by 10.78.203.13 with SMTP id a13mr2541714hug.1169847701911; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.164.20 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:41:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:41:41 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Chat" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 15e7807d8f40f24a Cc: Subject: fork(2) - "The Prestige" movie X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:41:44 -0000 Some googling showed I'm not the first to notice this, but if you ever need to explain how fork(2) works to someone without a clue, tell them to watch this movie. Some writers scrutinized the topic of copying yourself and continuing to live in two bodies at the same time long before this film, but I think many will prefer wasting 2 hours on one of IMDb top 250 movies (not that great if you ask me) to reading an obscure book. Cheers.