NAME

condom --protection against viruses and prevention of child processes

SYNOPSIS

condom [options] [processid]

DESCRIPTION

condom provides protection against System Transmitted Viruses (STVs) that may invade your system. Although the spread of such viruses across a network can only be abated by aware and cautious users, condom is the only highly effective means of preventing viruses from entering your system (see celibacy(1)).

Any data passed to condom by the protected process will be blocked, as specified by the value of the -s option (see OPTIONS below). condom is known to defend against the following viruses and other

malicious afflictions:

. AIDS
. Herpes Simplex (genital varieties)
. Syphilis
. Crabs
. Genital warts
. Gonhorrea
. Chlamydia
. Michelangelo
. Jerusalem

When used alone or in conjunction with pill(1), sponge(1), foam(1), and/or setiud(3), condom also prevents the conception of a child process. If invoked from within a synchronous process, condom has, by default, an 80% chance of reventing the external processes from becoming parent processes (see the -s option below). When other process contraceptives are used, the chance of preventing a child process from being forked becomes much greater. See pill(1), sponge(1), foam(1), setiud(3) for more information.

If no options are given, the current user's login process (as determined by the environment variable USER) is protected with a Trojan rough-cut latex condom without a reservoir tip.

The optional "processid" argument is an integer specifying the process to protect.

NOTE: condom may only be used with a hard disk. condom will terminate abnormally with exit code -1 if used with a floppy disk (see DIAGNOSTICS below).

OPTIONS

The following options may be given to condom:

-bbrand

brands are as follows:

trojan (default)
ramses
sheik
goldcoin
fourex

-m material
The valid materials are:

latex (default)
saranwrap
membrane

WARNING! The membrane option is not endorsed by the System Administrator General as an effective barrier against certain viruses. It is supported only for the sake of tradition.

-f flavor
The following flavors are currently supported:

plain (default)
apple
banana
cherry
cinnamon
licorice
orange
peppermint
raspberry
spearmint
strawberry

-r Toggle reservoir tip (default is no reservoir tip)

-s strength
strength is an integer between 20 and 100 specifying the resilience of condom against data passed to condom by the protected process. Using a larger value of strength increases condom's protective abilities, but also reduces interprocess communication. A smaller value of strength increases interprocess communication, but also increases the likelihood of a security breach. An extremely vigorous process or one passing an enormous amount of data to condom will increase the chance of condom's failure. The default strength is 80%.

-t texture
Valid textures are:

rough (default)
ribbed
bumps
lubricated
(provides smoother interaction between processes)

WARNING: The use of an external application to condom in order to reduce friction between processes has been proven in benchmark tests to decrease condom's strength factor! If execution speed is important to your process, use the "-t lubricated" option.