[Novalug] Linux boot, was Re: Kernel Compiles

[Peter Larsen]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:22 -0400, Ed James wrote:
> This is where I get confused, because on my system init has PID 1 (and PPID 0).
> 
> Question (for nobody in particular):  for a "ps -ef", why are some of
> the process
> names in square brackets, like: [kthread] and [khelper]?  Seems like most (not
> all) were forked/spawned/execed/birthed by init.

Every process is actually owned by init - technically. ps just doesn't
show that. init is the grandfather of all processes on your machine. 

Try "ps axf" you'll get the hierachi (except init) printed. You'll
notice that all [ ] "processes" are children of [khthread]. Kernel
Handler.  These are jobs the kernel schedules to do device and other
type of backend management. The [ ] should indicate that they run in
core 0.  If you look carefully you should recognize that most of the
"processes" there resemble the kernel module names of ditto. 

-- 
Best Regards
  Peter Larsen

Wise words of the day:
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
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