1 CONDOM(1) EUNUCH Programmer's Manual CONDOM(1)
6 condom - Protection against viruses and prevention of child
10 condom [options] [processid]
13 _condom_ provides protection against System Transmitted
14 Viruses (STVs) that may invade your system. Although the spread of
15 such viruses across a network can only be abated by aware and cautious
16 users, _condom_ is the only highly-effective means of preventing
17 viruses from entering your system (see celibacy(1)). Any data passed
18 to _condom_ by the protected process will be blocked, as specified by
19 the value of the -s option (see OPTIONS below). _condom_ is known to
20 defend against the following viruses and other malicious
24 o Herpes Simplex (genital varieties)
33 When used alone or in conjunction with pill(1), sponge(1),
34 foam(1), and/or setiud(3), _condom_ also prevents the conception of a
35 child process. If invoked from within a synchronous process, _condom_
36 has, by default, an 80% chance of preventing the external processes
37 from becoming parent processes (see the -s option below). When other
38 process contraceptives are used, the chance of preventing a child
39 process from being forked becomes much greater. See pill(1),
40 sponge(1), foam(1), and setiud(3) for more information.
41 If no options are given, the current user's login process (as
42 determined by the environment variable USER) is protected with a
43 Trojan rough-cut latex condom without a reservoir tip. The optional
44 'processid' argument is an integer specifying the process to protect.
45 NOTE: _condom_ may only be used with a hard disk. _condom_
46 will terminate abnormally with exit code -1 if used with a floppy
47 disk (see DIAGNOSTICS below).
50 The following options may be given to _condom_...
52 -b BRAND BRANDs are as follows...
60 -m MATERIAL The valid MATERIALs are...
64 membrane -- WARNING! The membrane option is _not_
65 endorsed by the System Administrator General as an
66 effective barrier against certain viruses. It is
67 supported only for the sake of tradition.
69 -f FLAVOR The following FLAVORs are currently supported...
83 -r Toggle reservoir tip (default is no reservoir tip)
85 -s STRENGTH STRENGTH is an integer between 20 and 100 specifying
86 the resilience of _condom_ against data passed to
87 _condom_ by the protected process. Using a larger
88 value of STRENGTH increases _condom_'s protective
89 abilities, but also reduces interprocess communication.
90 A smaller value of STRENGTH increases interprocess
91 communication, but also increases the likelihood of a
92 security breach. An extremely vigorous process or
93 one passing an enormous amount of data to _condom_
94 will increase the chance of _condom_'s failure. The
95 default STRENGTH is 80%.
97 -t TEXTURE Valid TEXTUREs are...
102 lubricated (provides smoother interaction between
105 WARNING: The use of an external application to _condom_ in
106 order to reduce friction between processes has been proven in
107 benchmark tests to decrease _condom_'s strength factor! If execution
108 speed is important to your process, use the '-t lubricated' option.
111 _condom_ terminates with one of the following exit codes...
113 -1 An attempt was made to use _condom_ on a floppy disk.
115 0 _condom_ exited successfully (no data was passed to
116 the synchronous process).
118 1 _condom_ failed and data was allowed through. The
119 danger of transmission of an STV or the forking of a child
120 process is inversely proportional to the number of other
121 protections employed and is directly proportional to
122 the ages of the processes involved.
125 _condom_ is NOT 100% effective at preventing a child process
126 from being forked or at deterring the invasion of a virus (although
127 the System Administrator General has deemed that _condom_ is the most
128 effective means of preventing the spread of system transmitted
129 viruses). See celibacy(1) for information on a 100% effective program
130 for preventing these problems.
131 Remember... the use of sex(1) and other related routines
132 should only occur between mature, consenting processes. If you must
133 use sex(1), please employ _condom_ to protect your process and your
134 synchronous process. If we are all responsible, we can stop the
138 The original version of _condom_ was released in Roman times
139 and was only marginally effective. With the advent of modern
140 technology, _condom_ now supports many more options and is much more
142 The current release of _condom_ was written by Ken Maupin at
143 the University of Washington (maupin@cs.washington.edu) and was last
147 celibacy(1), sex(1), pill(1), sponge(1), foam(1), and