Re: proced: ppid of process ID 0 can be 0

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have no doubt that on GNU/Linux, a ppid of zero is a sign of the
> root of the process tree.  But I wrote the 2 primitives that proced.el
> uses in order to free proced.el of any such OS-dependent assumptions.
> I have no problems with providing another one.

The primitives should ensure that what they return forms a forest.
I.e. under POSIX, they should treat a "ppid == 0" as meaning that
there's no parent (i.e. the data returned to Elisp should never say "the
parent is process 0" but should instead say "this process doesn't have
a parent").


        Stefan