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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "ps ax" shows init [
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:10:04 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9sbmcs$t4t$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111071747430.31120-100000@ares.sot.com>

In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111071747430.31120-100000@ares.sot.com>,
Yaroslav Popovitch  <yp@sot.com> wrote:
>doing "ps ax" get such msg for kernel-2.4.9:
>That is the same for kernel-2.4.12.Sometimes it is shown as it should be.
>Is this a bug of kernel? It seems to be..
>
>  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>    1 ?        S      0:06 init [    

It's because init doesn't have enough space in argv[] to change it's
process title. There are a number of causes for this, one indirect
one is pressing 'enter' at the 'LILO boot: ' prompt.

Mike.
-- 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
 and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-07 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-07 16:01 Yaroslav Popovitch
2001-11-07 16:10 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2001-11-07 22:09   ` Phil Howard

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