On Oct 22, 2015 4:58 PM, "Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/20/2015 07:16 PM, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > > On 10/21/2015 03:30 AM, Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation wrote: > > > The FSF is prepping to launch a tshirt design for this year's > > > LibrePlanet conference, and it's going to include the slogan "fork the > > > system." > > > > Good! > > > > IIRC, around 2012, FSFE sold baby rompers at thier booth; it says: > > "I'm a fork". > > > > > > No, fork(2) doesn't take any argument. So, we need some way to > > represent "the System". > > > > Anyway, in IA-32 assembly (on GNU/Linux): > > > > ... > > b8 78 00 00 00 mov $0x78,%eax > > cd 80 int $0x80 > > > Ok, thanks everyone. This was educational from a programming perspective. We'll probably go with a different idea :) > > -- > Zak Rogoff > Campaigns Manager > Free Software Foundation > GnuPG key fingerprint: 6EB2 B137 347E 6F7C DEDC AFF6 82DE 8D64 B509 0AC8 >
If "fork" doesn't have any arguments then theSystem.fork() is asking the system to please fork itself. That might be more nihilistic than originally intended, but it works for me! Jim Garrett
