From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:59:37 +0100 Message-ID: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229943600 6298 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2008 11:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 12:01:06 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 1LEiX3-0008Tt-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:01:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35521 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEiVr-0006gO-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEiVl-0006g1-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LEiVj-0006fF-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33194 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LEiVj-0006fB-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34760 helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LEiVg-00005A-Gk; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44D748551; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:59:38 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: ...It's REAL ROUND.. And it's got a POINTY PART right in the MIDDLE!! The shape is SMOOTH.. ..And COLD.. It feels very COMFORTABLE on my CHEEK.. I'm getting EMOTIONAL.. In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:08:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:107178 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stefan Monnier >> Cc: Roland Winkler , lekktu@gm= ail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:45:06 -0500 >>=20 >> The primitives should ensure that what they return forms a forest. > > You mean a tree. There are at least two process trees in modern Linux: one tree rooted at init (pid 1) and another one rooted at kthreadd (the mother of all kernel threads). Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."