OS Internals Books Are Wild

Nothing says "welcome to systems programming" quite like a table of contents that reads like a horror novel. When your textbook casually transitions from "Having Children" (spawning processes) to "Watching Your Children Die" (process termination) to "Killing Yourself" (self-termination), you know you're in for a traumatic coding experience. And they wonder why sysadmins develop thousand-yard stares. Just another day managing processes in the OS underworld, where "Dumping Core" isn't about fitness but about catastrophic failure.