From bd24664fc2c85ba82950d20d9d38c12311bb8e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benny Baumann <BenBE@geshi.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 23:34:06 +0100
Subject: Avoid useless search for pid 0

---
 ProcessList.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'ProcessList.c')

diff --git a/ProcessList.c b/ProcessList.c
index 30cd0f03..499f36a0 100644
--- a/ProcessList.c
+++ b/ProcessList.c
@@ -382,6 +382,11 @@ static void ProcessList_buildTree(ProcessList* this) {
          if (process->pid == ppid)
             r = 0;
 
+         // On Linux both the init process (pid 1) and the root UMH kernel thread (pid 2)
+         // use a ppid of 0. As that PID can't exist, we can skip searching for it.
+         if (!ppid)
+            r = 0;
+
          while (l < r) {
             int c = (l + r) / 2;
             pid_t pid = ((Process*)Vector_get(this->processes, c))->pid;
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