On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Nix wrote:
> [Cc: stripped down]
> MOLNAR Ingo writes:
> > the kernel assumes on some places that a process _always_ has a parent. So
> > it can always blindly dereference p->p_pptr.
>
> But init's parent is PID 0, which doesn't exist.
>
> Do these places never apply to init? (I'd understand what you say if
> init's parent was itself, but that's not how it's defined...)
>
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