Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:26:42 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: process 0 |
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 ic@aleph1.net wrote:
> Maybe this is a little off topic, but does what is the real status of > Process 0 (swapper) ? > Some people keep telling me it doesn't exist, but on some kernel crashes > I can see "process swapper (pid 0, process nr 0, ...)"
It's the idle task. Only exists to keep the CPU occupied when nothing else wants to run.
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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