RE: Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper)

>
>Swapper is the idle process, which swaps nothing. Its name is historic and it doesn't appear in /proc because for_each_process()
>skips it.
>
Anyone objecting to renaming it?


Jan Engelhardt
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