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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Reaping orphan processes.
Le 05/03/2023 à 11:03, Steve Litt a écrit :
> Didier Kryn said on Sat, 4 Mar 2023 22:41:49 +0100
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>>     What init does with zombies
> There's no such thing as "init". There are many "init systems", but no
> such thing as "init". Some folks use the word "init" as a synonym for
> sysvinit because 25 years ago sysvinit was the init system on at least
> 95% of Linux computers. Now, with so many init systems, using the word
> "init" as if it's a program is just confusing.
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>> is declared in /etc/inittab,
> /etc/inittab is strictly a sysvinit thing.
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    You are perfectly right and your correction had to be made. Please
accept my excuses: I am just too lazy to change the default in Devuan,
which is still sysvinit and gives me total satisfaction for my own
usage, even if I follow with high interest the developments in this field.

--     Didier