> Having the kernel not reparent user processes to init is an interesting > idea, especially when those processes have not existed. I'm not > certain that is POSIX complaint and otherwise backwards compatible.
It's hard to see how it would work. There has to be some parent PID. The reason using 1 makes sense is that it is always there. Anything >0 and not the PID of some live process could be reused for a new process at some point. Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
