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Is this effectively describing what an init does?
by graycoder 9y ago
Is this effectively describing what an init does?
- yellowapple 9y agoI think the key difference here is that the "init" is actually the process scheduler, and each of those managed processes is actually an "init" for its own children, and so on. Kind of like running a VM inside of a VM inside of a VM inside of a VM, but with less VM-specific baggage and more process-related baggage.
- efficax 9y agoExcept that you'd have, to example, run the network stack as a process. What he's describing is closer to a microkernel than anything.
- zodiac 9y agoNo, init still relies on the OS scheduler to switch between it and each of its child threads