Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org> typed:
:Just to be clear, since stopping 'update' on systems that do not have the
:kernel process would not be a good thing, what is the process name of said
:kernel process??

% ps 4
PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
  4 ??  DL     0:01.59 (ioflush)

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