Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology
Beth Agnew
beth.agnew at senecac.on.ca
Thu Apr 10 16:02:43 MDT 2008
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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