unintentionally evocative error message
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Haha, woah, this is software?
Is this a sorta poor English translation into an error message?
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the only poor English is the use of "it's" where "its" is correct. "parent process" and "child process" are legit unix terms. As is "forking" (how a parent process generates a child process) and "orphan process" (child process that lives after its parent has died)
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The "doesn't believe" is the weird part, but everything else doesn't bother me.
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The parent / child contexts are used in a lot of other contexts like trees (including DOM), etc. so there are a lot of things it could potentially be talking about.
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Nah, that's not the weird part, the "believes", part, like it's a person with intentions.
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It could make more sense in another context though. Anthropomorphism itself isn't that weird, especially since it seems like this was written by someone who speaks English as a second language. Might not be weird at all in their own language.
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THAT is what I was suggesting, English as a second language.
It's just a LITTLE weird. But, it makes sense. Parent/child process is standard.
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so my guess was wrong it's not about processes, it's about some menu stuff; and i think the "believes" stuff makes sense, it's like saying "this function was called to remove child node A from parent B but child node A's data structure doesnt report that its parent is B"
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Yeah, that's the impression I was getting since the 'believes' didn't make sense for processes rather than tree nodes where they could have a mismatched parent somehow (which is odd, but makes sense).
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Since this is glib code buying into using glib for everything, it makes sense that it spams concerning error messages about internal data corruption to stderr. I think that's how anything written glib is supposed to work. It's just the glib aesthetic.