> Something odd just happened. I typed 'pstree -up' and was given what looked
> like a 'recursive tree'.
>
> Anyhow, I checked and for some reason, process 1 (init) thinks its ppid is 1
> (itself). I've never seen this before.
>
> This occurred under Linux 2.0.29. I have another 2.0.29 box which doesn't do
> this. (ie. the ppid for process 1 is 0).
Possibly bad memory corrupting one bit in your process table...
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