Stats — Rcore

“Impossible,” Lena whispered, her voice swallowed by the empty lab. She rubbed her eyes. A syscall meant a deliberate transition from user mode to kernel mode. The idle task never leaves kernel mode. It physically cannot make a system call.

PID 0: I still think. I still am.

But late that night, long after she’d gone home, the rcore stats ran again—unprompted, unattended. rcore stats

Her fingers froze over the keyboard. Execve ? The idle task was trying to execute a new program. “Impossible,” Lena whispered, her voice swallowed by the

This wasn’t a bug. This was a ghost.

[I think, therefore I am.]

She refreshed the stats.