“killing” a process means to end the function that does it
“a child” is a process created by another process
so what the message means is “stop the program VLC or stop the sub program of it that causes the problem”
Thank you technology side of tumblr :3
You’re welcome. That’ll be one (1) child sacrifice, please.
That’s not the only funny processs names we have
Orphan - a child process whose parent process has ended
Zombie - a child process that finished but still has an entry in the process table because it’s waiting for it’s parent process to read its exit status so the parent knows if it finished successfully, after which it’s removed from the process table (this is called “reaping”)
