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nitin_cherian
nitin_cherian

Reputation: 6655

Is init process a daemon process

I want to know whether init process is a daemon process?

Thanks, LinuxPenseur

Upvotes: 0

Views: 386

Answers (1)

Victor Parmar
Victor Parmar

Reputation: 5789

init is the mother of all processes and can be thought of as a daemon.

One big difference however is that while daemons run in the background and can be stopped and restarted, killing init will kill the os.

Upvotes: 4

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