From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 18:10:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02342 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02335 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA05267; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:10:06 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:10:06 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious about what happens during boot. In-Reply-To: <19981130113148.H831@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." - Gary Larson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message