Re: pid change notice

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:08:11 +0100 Kevin Chadwick <address@hidden>
wrote about Re: pid change notice:

KC> > However, I have no idea what this process might be (PPID is 1?).

KC> init, the process that starts all the others.
KC> You can usually see that with ps -aux

Yes, I know. But why should init start new processes with the same or a
similar name as the one I'm already running?
If my current process forks, the new PPID should be the forking process
(not init), shouldn't it?


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