What is this?! Many people saw an EBS message that included computer script about "sacrifice child"
(mobile.twitter.com)
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processes are tasks or programs running on your computer. child processes are tasks that run under a primary task or are a subset of program code running underneath a primary task. Looks to me like a system ran out of available memory (RAM) and that child processes are being closed to try and regain memory.
Yeah, in the context of IT, it makes sense linguistically. Problem is, not everyone has basic IT knowledge, so thanks for the easy to read explanation.
This is a memory leak ... common side effect of using a buffer overflow to hack a system (or indications on exists)
Was the whole point of this EAS test to signal to the black Hats that the White Hats are in possession of a Zero-Day exploit of the EAS (and therefore can take controll any time)?
Okay, this is an OS error message stating the system ran out of memory for the process VLC (video player). A process starts "child" processes. To sacrifice the "child" in this case means to stop the child process that was spawned.
But who knows, could have a double meaning.
Remember when pATA ran as master/slave? Probably double meaning...
Can't say "master/slave" anymore : (
Building that ' terminology' into OS is just bullshit and covers for crime accidentally seen?
No.. It's a very common programming concept. You open a file folder.. all the items in the file folder are 'children' of the parent folder. It's the same with running processes launching child processes. The terms for ending processes abruptly all sound like murder. There's lots of commands embedded in different operating systems such as 'kill' 'terminate' etc.. If your process is using a dangerous amount of memory (about to cause the whole system to lock up), it needs to kill some of its processes or it will crash similar to a Windows blue screen..
Not really, it's just the terminology used. It comes from family trees. Which are also Binary trees.
When a process spawns a process you call it a parent and child. Because the parent process spawned the child process. You do things to processes sometimes like kill them or fork them.... Seriously this is just normal computing terms. I had a professor that made up all kinds of jokes when he explained stuff. Like when a child process replaces a parent process.
Why would a video player need to be used for an EBS?
Also plays audio (i.e. the klaxxon horn sound), but the banner scrolling across would be spliced into the feed, and would need to be recorded ahead of time.
Already in memory when the message came.
You have Parent Threads, and Child Threads, when you are out of memory the system has to drop, or sacrifice child Threads.
Nothing to see here
Well, if you kill the parent process, the child becomes an orphaned or zombie process.
Shit. Never thought about it like that. Fucking chilling.
That's standard Linux kernel errors when a system runs out of memory. The Out of memory: kill process or sacrifice child error is generated when the available virtual memory (including swap) is consumed to the extent where the overall operating system stability is put to risk. In such case the Out of memory killer picks the rogue process and kills it.
They couldn't, and they shouldn't. It's like calling certain audio cables Females or Males, and having Female-to-Female or Male-to-Male adapters or converters.
It doesn't mean anything, it's old industry jargon - for how the look, or what they do in context.
I guess they could have used kill or terminate.
Seriously guys, this is just normal computing language. The OS makers didn't invent it. It's just the easiest way to convey the ideas.
You have a process that spawns another process. That spawned process needs to be terminated because it is not working properly; there is some error. So you tell that first process to terminate that second process that was spawned.
that's a parent process killing it's child! omg how terrible! No it's just normal computing things. just search "kill process child fork" and you'll get tons of actual examples.
From what I've gathered, this message only appeared on TVs
Well I didn’t get ANY EBS. I’m salty 🤣
Also found here: https://mobile.twitter.com/EyesRealize/status/1425524466700935178
Is this computer lingo, or was there a bigger message that just didn't make it out?
Tired of this constant “look at this!” to cause concern and panic when its fucking NOTHING !
I'm not trying to make anyone panic... just pointing out an odd thing I came across
A child process. This is normal computer terms.
It's just an error. Low on memory.