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		icebraining on Sept 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why systemd? btw, user processes supervision is a task of an OS kernel, which it handles via a bunch of specialized syscalls, not of some "man-in-the-middle" user-level daemons. I'm pretty sure /sbin/init runs in userspace even on *BSDs and Solaris, and does process supervision.

dschiptsov on Sept 23, 2014 [–]

You would be surprised how a few processes it supervises. getties (remember these?) what else?

initscripts has nothing to do with /sbin/init, surprise?

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