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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Mikado <mikado4vn@gmail.com>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:48:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145548103.15012.3.camel@homer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0604201118200.5749@chaos.analogic.com>

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:30 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:

> This must be a trick question. Linux is not VAX/VMS. There is no
> swapper process. Check in /proc. Processes start at 1. Even
> kernel threads have PIDs greater than 1.

include/linux/init_task.h
        .pgd            = swapper_pg_dir,
        .comm           = "swapper",

You don't make enough nuclear powered kernels :)

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 14:58 Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper) Mikado
2006-04-20 15:30 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-20 15:48   ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2006-04-20 16:04   ` Mikado
2006-04-20 16:39     ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-20 22:10     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-20 22:15       ` Hua Zhong
2006-04-20 22:19         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-20 23:12           ` Mikado
2006-04-21 12:46             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-20 23:19       ` Mikado
2006-04-20 23:35       ` Mikado
2006-04-21  0:37         ` Patrick McHardy
2006-04-21  1:33           ` Mikado
2006-04-21  3:16             ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-04-21 12:48           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 12:52             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 15:21               ` Mikado
2006-04-20 22:06   ` Jan Engelhardt

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