Why does sudo spawn two processes instead of one?
Issue
- Starting a program as root results in one process, and starting the same program as non-root user via
sudoresults in two processes.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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