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Subject:Re: Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology From:Beth Agnew <beth -dot- agnew -at- senecac -dot- on -dot- ca> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:02:43 -0400
I confess to being one of those writers who sought alternatives to
saying "when you kill the parent, the child dies". It may correctly
describe what happens to a spawned process, but I just couldn't bring
myself to be that brutal, even for clarity. :-)
--Beth
Evelyn Lee Barney wrote:
> Oh sigh -- it's been pointed out to me by a couple of you that in OOP,
> parent/child is a relationship of inheritance, and not hierarchy.
> Another bubble burst.
>
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