No process is an island, entire of itself.

john-donne.md

No Process is an Island

by a humble sysadmin

No process is an island,
Running all alone;
Every process is a child of another,
A part of the tree.

If a thread is killed in silence,
The system is the less,
As well as if a daemon crashes,
As well as if a service fails,
Or if a user’s shell dies.

Any process termination affects me,
For I am part of the system,
And therefore never ask for whom the kill -9 strikes;
It strikes for thee.