application process

From: Uday Mullangi (udaymullangi_at_lucent.com)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:33:51 +0530

Hi,

After the kernel comes up, executes inittab file., et al.....Later how are
application processes created?
Does all the application process resides as a binaries in some path?

Thanks
Uday