(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 6:15:47
core = C = core dump

core cancer n.

[rare] A process that exhibits a slow but inexorable resource leak -- like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive `tissue'.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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