scream and die
Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed. [Jargon File]Screamer
An extension of Common Lisp providing nondeterministic backtracking and constraint programming. ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/screamer.tar.Z. [Isn't all backtracking nondeterministic by definition?]screaming tty
[Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial. [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
Scratchpad I ♦ Scratchpad II ♦ scream and die ♦ Screamer ♦ screaming tty
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