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Is PID 1 Always a System PID on Linux, SGI, and Windows
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| clusardi2k@aol.com 2005-09-08, 5:54 pm |
| Is it safe to make this assumption?
Thank you,
Christopher Lusardi
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| Floyd L. Davidson 2005-09-08, 5:54 pm |
| clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
>Is it safe to make this assumption?
I have no idea what Windows does.
On any unix based system pid number 1 will always be /init/,
which is necessarily the first process that is executed, and can
never actually be killed (trying to kill it just restarts it).
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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
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