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Tag: Process identifier

Careful with PIDs

Sep 17, 2012dropbear5 Commentspsmisc, SoftwareFreeBSD, Hurd, Linux, Process identifier, procfs, psmisc, Unix

Quick question, what is the lowest Process ID you will find?  Most people (myself included until recently) would be able to say that the lowest number is 1 for the init process.  Plenty of programs including ps and pstree have this assumption. This assumption bit me this week with Debian Bug 687829 where pstree on…

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