DIAGNOSTICS
condom terminates with one of the following exit codes:
-1 An attempt was made to use condom on a floppy disk.
0 condom exited successfully (no data was passed to the synchronous process).
1 condom failed and data was allowed through. The danger of transmission of an STV or the forking of a child process is inversely proportional to the number of other protections employed and is directly proportional to the ages of the processes involved.
BUGS
condom is NOT 100% effective at preventing a child process from being forked or at deterring the invasion of a virus (although the System Administrator General has deemed that condom is the most effective means of preventing the spread of system transmitted viruses). See celibacy(1) for information on a 100% effective program for preventing these problems.
Remember, the use of sex(1) and other related routines should only occur between mature, consenting processes. If you must use sex(1), please employ condom to protect your process and your synchronous process. If we are all responsible, we can stop the spread of STVs.
AUTHORS and HISTORY
The original version of condom was released in Roman times and was only marginally effective. With the advent of modern technology, condom now supports many more options and is much more effective.
The current release of condom was written by Ken Maupin at the University of Washington (maupin@cs.washington.edu) and was last updated on 10/7/92.
SEE ALSO
celibacy(1), sex(1), pill(1), sponge(1), foam(1), setiud(3)
