Operating system question | CS 149 Operating System | San Jose State University
When a UNIX-like system starts up, it runs init. Nowadays this is a program called systemd on UNIX-like systems. On Mac the similar system manager is called launchd. It runs under PID of 1 and is an ancestor of all other processes. You can see the process with command “ps aux”. If a process is left as an orphan (its parent dies), it gets reassigned […]
