From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:37:28 +0000 Message-ID: <494FEC78.8010307@harpegolden.net> References: <18765.19040.568030.246241@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18765.29820.997276.703222@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18765.51840.943986.608296@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229974691 14825 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 19:38:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, lekktu@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 20:39:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LEqcV-00023T-Mr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:39:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqbI-00040E-GK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqbB-0003ye-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqb7-0003xz-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40183 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEqb7-0003xr-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:41303) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LEqay-00023Y-KH; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.5] (87-198-54-5.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601D28176; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:37:34 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107196 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't see a kthreadd process. I only see a kthread (one d) which is > a child of init. Is this because this system is not modern enough? > > On my 2.6.26 system, I have an init (pid 1, ppid 0) and a [kthreadd] (pid 2, ppid 0), according to ps ajx