The road forward for systemd

However as most of us are -users- of init systems I'm not sure that shaving a few seconds off the boot that is already getting pretty fast is that attractive (non of my systems reboot very often at all) for the further disruption of a new init system.

A key feature that would cause me to be interested in a new init system is something I've seen no awareness of in from the groups involved -

Self healing ala Monit http://mmonit.com/monit/

Here's an example from monit of what I'd like to see in an upstart or systemd configuration -

check process sshd with pidfile /var/run/sshd.pid
start program "/etc/init.d/sshd start"
stop program "/etc/init.d/sshd stop"
if failed port 22 protocol ssh then restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

Monit allowed me to create bulletproof embedded systems to deploy in developing economy banks.

Most daemon issues are not caused by pids just dying in my experience.. it's when they become unresponsive to user/program interactions. None of the init replacements deal with that (including solaris as I recall).

I'd like this integrated in phone/laptop/server environments.

P.S. Lennart thanks for Pulse, it's been an awesome improvement.