Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 17 Aug 1998 12:43:33 +0200 |
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Nix <nix-kernel@esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
|> [Cc: stripped down] |> MOLNAR Ingo writes: |> > the kernel assumes on some places that a process _always_ has a parent. So |> > it can always blindly dereference p->p_pptr. |> |> But init's parent is PID 0, which doesn't exist.
Surely it exists, it's the idle task.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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