Why is the Apache process named httpd?

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As you may have discovered, the process name of the Apache server software isn’t eponymous - ps aux | grep -i [a]pache won’t show you anything1. It is instead named httpd. Why? This Stackoverflow question illustrates the issue and gives the background to wrapping the first character of the process name you want to grep for: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9375940 ↩

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