begin Ron Johnson quote on Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:45:30PM -0600: > Is "20" a magic number? I've got kernel pids up to 124 (not including > nfs-related pids.
No magic numbers (except for init always being PID 1). Kernel threads just tend to start early in the boot process and stay around for the duration of the system, so they tend to get and keep low PIDs. ps will put kernel threads in [] so that you can id them easier (at least on current Linux systems). M
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