init has a socket?

[nelson]

stream would be a unix socket, ie IPC, not a tcp socket.  
under linux isn't there another prog that's
linked to init that sends signals to init?
if so that might be an answer - been a while since i've 
done anything with linux...

~-----Original Message-----
~From: linux-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-admin at lists.samba.org]On
~Behalf Of Simon Burton
~Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:11 PM
~To: linux at lists.samba.org
~Subject: init has a socket?
~
~
~here is the tail of "netstat -p",
~on my RH7.2 boxen.
~Why does init have a stream open?
~i thought i had been hacked until
~i re-installed and found same...
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    1097   923/xfs 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    1055   871/crond 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    1006   822/xinetd 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    932    733/apmd 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    813    620/rpc.statd 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    768    572/klogd 
~
~unix  2      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     456    1/init [3] 
~
~
~i guess it doesn't matter;
~one of those curious things that i
~will learn one day :)
~
~simon b
~
~