[ale] why trailing spaces for init process (RHEL5)

[Jim Kinney]

That's odd. Artifact of ps? I see it also on a F8 machine. It adds 25 spaces
to the line.

2008/5/30 Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:

> I redirected 'ps -ef' to a file for some compliance exercise. saw a blank
> line after init.
> opened it up in vi and realized the 'blank line' is not a separate line,
> but a lot of trailing spaces after the init process name. This is on a
> RHEL5/i386 server.
>
> I know init is special, but didn't notice that it is special in this way.
> anybody knows why?
>
>       1 UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
>       2 root         1     0  0 Apr18 ?        00:00:02 init [5]
>
>       3 root         2     1  0 Apr18 ?        00:00:00 [migration/0]
>
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