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Jan Engelhardt

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Mar 24, 2005, 6:00:16 AM3/24/05
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Hello,


when stuffing a minimalistic environment into initrd (bash,libc and ps) into
an initrd, and I run ps from within, I get "[swapper]" with PID 1 and linuxrc
as PID 123 (think one up). What's the swapper doing?
As booting with root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc puts linuxrc in pid 1.


Jan Engelhardt
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