Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: "ps ax" shows init [ | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:10:04 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111071747430.31120-100000@ares.sot.com>, Yaroslav Popovitch <yp@sot.com> wrote: >doing "ps ax" get such msg for kernel-2.4.9: >That is the same for kernel-2.4.12.Sometimes it is shown as it should be. >Is this a bug of kernel? It seems to be.. > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 1 ? S 0:06 init [
It's because init doesn't have enough space in argv[] to change it's process title. There are a number of causes for this, one indirect one is pressing 'enter' at the 'LILO boot: ' prompt.
Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
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