As with anything else, your chances increase with the number of processes you have running. If it blindly reads the pid and sends a kill signal, your odds are

As with anything else, your chances increase with the number of processes you have running. If it blindly reads the pid and sends a kill signal, your odds are pretty good with a limit of 32K pids on a busy system. If it confirms that the process name matches an expected value, you have less of a chance.. but if your process name is bash, java, or python, maybe not as good as you would hope. I don't have things crashing a lot, but it's naive to pretend that it never happens. It could result in two things: the rc system telling me that everything is fine or the rc system sending signals to some unrelated, poor, unsuspecting, processes. I don't need a process monitor just for that. I have systemd. :-)