Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:

> Le 04/04/2026 à 18:49, Rainer Weikusat via Dng a écrit :
>> int main(void)
>> {
>>      extern int wait(int *);
>>      while (1) wait(0);
>>      return 0;
>> }

>
>     Well, this is for the second-stage init; but it must also respond
> to reboot requests and, maybe, monitor at least one getty.
>
>     And it comes after a first stage which needs to start some daemon
> launcher. Otherwise it is pointless to reap processes since there
> arent any (~:

That's what the shell-script was for. At worst, if a shell script cannot
yet be executed (seems very improbable), one would need to use two
executable binaries, one which launches the startup script and then
execs the other which waits for orphaned processes. There's really no
reason why init should do anything else, this can all be provided by
other processes/ programs. Poettering is a dolt. Or an early attempt at
creating an LLM which went really awry.

I might eventually create something that's compatible SysV rc based on
this idea. On the outset, it looks like an interesting project.