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From: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] A language question
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:23:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFH29tqufeRqhPyozT5Nmjb2nUvSxArHyDwEKEZ2nU0Kijma7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I hope that this does not start any kind of language flaming and that if
something starts the moderator will shut it down quickly.

Where did the name for abort(3) and SIGABRT come from? I believe it was
derived from the IBM term ABEND, but would like to know one way or the
other.

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             reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-01 13:23 Richard Salz [this message]
2021-09-01 13:28 ` Dan Cross
2021-09-01 13:44   ` Clem Cole
2021-09-01 14:23   ` Paul Winalski
2021-09-01 14:29     ` John Cowan
2021-09-01 15:59       ` Ron Natalie
2021-09-01 18:09         ` Warner Losh
2021-09-01 18:43         ` John Cowan

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