On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:33:41PM -0600, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
But I'm still curious about this process hierarchy. Why do
processes
like bonobo-activation-server and gnome-panel seem to execute with init
as their parent?
Reparenting.
When a child process's parent dies, but the child lives on, init becomes
the child's new parent.
Does that help?
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com>