[ale] why trailing spaces for init process (RHEL5)

[jjj863 at gmail.com (Jerry Yu)]

I redirected 'ps -ef' to a file for some compliance exercise. saw a blank
line after init.
opened it up in vi and realized the 'blank line' is not a separate line, but
a lot of trailing spaces after the init process name. This is on a
RHEL5/i386 server.

I know init is special, but didn't notice that it is special in this way.
anybody knows why?

      1 UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
      2 root         1     0  0 Apr18 ?        00:00:02 init [5]

      3 root         2     1  0 Apr18 ?        00:00:00 [migration/0]
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