Notes and Jottings

“Douglas Bowman”:http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/04/15/page23.html told me to:

# Grab the nearest book.
# Open the book to page 23.
# Find the fifth sentence.
# Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

The nearest book: “Peril’s Gate”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061054674/qid=1082070738/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-3338538-2697442?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 by Janny Wurts:

bq. Why else should you contrive your passage of the Wheel while I was diverted by the pretense of proving my worth?

The next nearest book, “Linux Kernel Development”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325128/qid=1082070783/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3338538-2697442?v=glance&s=books by Robert Love, would have said the following (but it, of course, doesn’t count for the purposes of this game):

bq. The only overhead incurred by fork() is the duplication of the parent’s page tables and the creation of a unique process descriptor for the child.

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