Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Roland Winkler <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:45:06 -0500
>> 
>> The primitives should ensure that what they return forms a forest.
>
> You mean a tree.

There are at least two process trees in modern Linux: one tree rooted at
init (pid 1) and another one rooted at kthreadd (the mother of all
kernel threads).

Andreas.

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