Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!sun!gnu From: gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Access to kmem - System namelist - 'ps' etc Message-ID: <1896@sun.uucp> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 20:21:45 EST Article-I.D.: sun.1896 Posted: Mon Dec 24 20:21:45 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:05:10 EST References: <126@dadla.UUCP> <93@redwood.UUCP> <1869@sun.uucp> <453@mako.UUCP> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 10 Jan Steinman of Tek asked: > In article <1869@sun.uucp> gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: > >The Data General AOS and AOS/VS systems solved this problem cleanly... To > >find all the jobs in the system, start at pid 1 and recurse asking about all > >its daughters... > > How did it deal with daemons? Were all processes required living parents? I believe processes without parents were adopted by pid 1, as in Unix. At any rate, every process had a live parent, maybe not the one it started with.