Daemons, spawning, and the reaper

Did you ever hear something said in a meeting that just seemed like it could be delivered in a completely different setting?

Today, ah what a kind of a strange day, but that's a story for another time.

But I digress...

So, I called a meeting today to try to get to the bottom of problems with the release of a new product.

Normally, my boss doesn't want me to micro manage, so I didn't. But this project, no micro management is required. Maybe I should have known that, but I'm still working on my ESP rating.

But I digress...

So in the meeting, the following statement was made "The spawned daemon had two parents because the reaper had not killed one of them yet."

No, I've been involved in software engineering for over 25 years, but that statement sounded like it should be coming from "Dawn of the Dead" or something like that.

It actually had to do with a defect that was logged against a Java service that was part of the application.
But taken out of context, who knows!