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!!!Geekerata (A UNIX Analog of Desiderata (Max Ehrman, 1927))%%% (mainly as addressed to a network process) Badri Krishnamoorthy%%% badri@srtc.com Route placidly amid channel noise and network failures,%%% And remember what throughput there may be in executing all alone. As far as possible, without overflowing buffer%%% Be on communicative terms with all processes.%%% Broadcast your data quietly and clearly%%% And listen(2) to others.%%% Even to the null and the unreachable,%%% They too have their requests.%%% Avoid long and argumentative sessions%%% They are burdensome to the ether. If you compare your priority with others'%%% You may become vain or bitter%%% For always there will be greater and lesser processes than yourself.%%% Enjoy your CPUtime as well as your idletime.%%% Keep cognizance of your portmapper, however low-level%%% It is a constant port in the changing mappings of the network.%%% Exercise caution in your execution,%%% For the kernel is full of traps.%%% But let this not blind you to what swap space there is;%%% Many channels strive for high bandwidths, and everywhere%%% Computing is full of parallelism. Be yourself. (Check with getpid(2) frequently)%%% Especially do not forge NFS file handles.%%% Neither be cynical about sockets,%%% For in the face of all congestion and delays%%% They are as powerful as STREAMS. Take kindly the influx of new requests,%%% Gracefully re-prioritizing the older ones. Nurture support of check-points to rollback from sudden crashes %%% But do not thrash pages due to imagined pagefaults:%%% Many core dumps are born of bus error or segmentation faults. Beyond a nominal consideration,%%% Be nice(1) to other processes. You are a child in the kernel space%%% No less than the daemons and the device drivers,%%% You have a right to execute here.%%% And whether or not it is apparent to you%%% No doubt the kernel is crashing, though it shouldn't. Therefore be at peace with your programmer%%% However geeky you think s/he is. %%% And wherever your read(2)'s and recvfrom(2)'s,%%% In the noisy communication channels of the network,%%% Keep a valid (void *) buf available in your address space.%%% With all its stopped jobs, missing arguments and broken pipes,%%% It is still a UNIX shell. Be backward-compatible.%%% Strive to be up and running always.
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