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LoganDark on Dec 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emacs should become a Wayland compositor

I don't think there is a PID 0. The very first userspace process is PID 1.

Or do you mean the kernel itself?

deafpolygon on Dec 4, 2022 | [–]

Send a PR to the linux kernel team

humanistbot on Dec 5, 2022 | | [–]

I meant the kernel itself.

erik_seaberg on Dec 4, 2022 | [–]

kill(2) interprets pid 0 as “everything in my process group.”

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