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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb@e-smith.com>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: runit pblms on Mandrake
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:40:20 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307221737360.415-100000@allspice.nssg.mitel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030722213115.48874.qmail@web14405.mail.yahoo.com>


On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Karthik M wrote:

> "How does the init process know that a getty process
> has died and it needs to be respawned ??"
...
> 
> A getty process
> cannot be observed from the 'ps -aux' output. So it is
> not running at all after the user logins into the
> system. So when the user logs out then it is the shell
> that exits and not the getty process. 

They're the same process. See "man execve".

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-22 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17  3:10 Karthik M
2003-07-17  6:00 ` Hleil Liu
2003-07-17  6:05   ` Hleil Liu
2003-07-17  6:25     ` Laurent Bercot
2003-07-17  8:51       ` Hleil Liu
2003-07-17 12:33         ` Laurent Bercot
2003-07-17 16:30           ` Karthik M
2003-07-17 17:10             ` Lukas Beeler
2003-07-17 22:22               ` Karthik M
2003-07-19  1:43               ` Karthik M
2003-07-19  8:02                 ` Lukas Beeler
2003-07-22 21:31                   ` Karthik M
2003-07-22 21:40                     ` Charlie Brady [this message]
2003-07-23 18:30                     ` clemens fischer
2003-07-17 19:30           ` Stefan Karrmann
2003-07-18 10:17       ` Gerrit Pape
2003-07-19 17:25       ` Hleil Liu
2003-07-17 16:26   ` Karthik M
2003-07-18 10:20     ` Gerrit Pape
2003-07-18 16:27       ` Lukas Beeler
2003-07-21 10:01         ` some getties require setsid() (Re: runit pblms on Mandrake) Gerrit Pape
2003-07-21 10:13           ` some getties require setsid() Lukas Beeler
2003-07-23 17:03             ` clemens fischer
2003-07-23 17:23               ` Lukas Beeler

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