Access to kmem - System namelist - 'ps' etc

[John Gilmore]

Jan Steinman of Tek asked:
> In article <1869 at sun.uucp> gnu at 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.