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Linux Boot Process
init program
- general purpose program that spawns new processes and restarts certain programs when they exit, based on the signals they are given.
- init is responsible for:
- communicating between the kernel and all other processes
- managing all processes currently running and their parent / child relationship(s)
- running a series of initialization programs and scripts when the system boots / starts-up
- Kernel is hardwired to run the init process no matter what