If only there was a way for the system init program to identify and keep a list of processes it has spawned, you could imagine like a unique numerical Process I

If only there was a way for the system init program to identify and keep a list of processes it has spawned, you could imagine like a unique numerical Process ID, and then if there was a program that could check the Process Status, and another that could kill the process identified by this... PID with increasing levels of aggressiveness...