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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSD 4.4:  Preventing zombies SIGCHLD
Date: 26 Dec 1995 21:38:48 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <4b8058$8gc@picasso.op.net>,
Bruce Momjian <root@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> Each time I want a sound, I vfork() and exec() a script that runs sox on
> the sound file.

Um.

Why don't you just convert the sounds once?

> I love to watch the plane fly as I type.  Have I been working on
> computers too long?:-)

You haven't been working on computers "too long" until you snort coffee all
over the keyboard while reading alt.sysadmin.recovery.
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