Who is the parent of all the processes in Linux?

20 December 2022

Who is the parent of all the processes in Linux?

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With the exception of the startup process, every process in the operating system is started when a process calls the fork() system call. The parent process is the one that used the fork() system call. So a parent process is a process that generates a child process.

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