INIT

Init

In Unix-based computer operating systems, init is the first process started during booting of the computer system. Init is a daemon process that continues running until the system is shut down. It is the direct or indirect ancestor of all other processes and automatically adopts all orphaned processes. Init is started by the kernel using a hard-coded filename, and if the kernel is unable to start it, a kernel panic will result. Init is typically assigned process identifier 1.

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init

Noun

After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.

Verb

It actually only requires a few bytes to be zeroised to init the drive.



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