Crossword-Solution: ZEROED 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Common {unixism}s include: gratuitous use of `fork(2)'; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of UNIX libraries such as `stdio(3)' are supported elsewhere; reliance on {obscure} side-effects of system calls (use of `sleep(2)' with a 0 argument to clue the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never `free()'ing memory.

Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually writing zeroes throughout the area being zeroed.

Common unixisms include: gratuitous use of fork(2); the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as stdio(3) are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of sleep(2) with a 0 argument to clue the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never free()ing memory.

Some people, though, just can't be convinced._ BY ANNE WALKER Illustrated by Bernklau [Illustration] In the dark, our glider chutes zeroed neatly on target--only Art Benjamin missed the edge of the gorge.

But when I do, I'll guarantee that every Telly camera covering the fracas will be zeroed in on Joe Mauser." "Great," Joe growled.