|> [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.
Surely it exists, it's the idle task.
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