> On 11 May 2024, at 10:46, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> Sysvinit's process controller is, IMHO, inferior to runit and s6
> because it requires daemons to background themselves, and its init
> scripts are huuuuuuuge. Systemd advocates would also include as a
> disadvantage that sysvinit's process controller can't fork processes in
> parallel. I don't think that's a significant disadvantage unless a
> daemon is incredibly slow in starting, in which case, shame on the
> daemon or shame on the admin (if he botched reverse DNS, for instance).

Isn’t this parallel startup handled by startpar for sysvinit?

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/startpar/startpar.1.en.html