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Date:      Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:10:06 +1300 (NZDT)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Curious about what happens during boot.
Message-ID:  <Pine.SCO.3.96.981130150859.9948A-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <19981130113148.H831@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

[...]
> The first process that UNIX starts is process 0 (strangely enough).
> Nowadays it doesn't do much more than spawn process 1, which is called
> init.

Hmm. If the process 1 is called `init'; was there ever a name for
process 0?

Jonathan Chen
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