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From: dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: what is windaemon (pid 3)?
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.025910.22296@yenta.alb.nm.us>
Date: 28 Jun 91 02:59:10 GMT
Organization: yenta unix pc, rio rancho, nm
Lines: 13

Now that I have mgr, I don't load the window manager any more, but
process id 3 (windaemon) continues to haunt my process table.  It looks
like the kernel starts this up all by itself.

  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI ADR SZ:RSZ   WCHAN TTY  TIME COMD
  3 S     0     3     0  0   0 20  56  0:  0   1e9a8   ?  0:00 windaemon

What is it?  Do I need it?  It never accumulates any runtime at all.

						little david
-- 
Early to rise and late to bed,
Makes a man tired, wired, and dead.