Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Crowdsourced programming pun

[Jim Garrett]

On Oct 22, 2015 4:58 PM, "Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation" <zak@fsf.org> 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
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>

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