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Process Status: ps

Using the ps command (process status), you can see that pm's pid is 0 and ppid is 5. The parent is rs.

rs ppid is 1, which is init.

However, using ps, init's pid is 1 (for tradition sake as it is in Unix), but init's ppid is 5!

In Unix, init's ppid would be 0.



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