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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
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Posted: Mon Dec 24 20:21:45 1984
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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.