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What happens when you open a terminal and enter ‘ls’ (www.warp.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting read, thanks for posting. I hadn't considered how predictive text works in a terminal emulator and its cool to see how that works as well as getting a better understanding of child processes and what commands would/wouldn't start one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unix loves to fork processes. So you get lots and lots of processes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Only system I've used that loves processes more than Unix is Erlang