Another daemon for managing control groups

Another daemon for managing control groups

Systemd's logging functionality is neither part of init nor PID1. The journald process is separate from the init process.

What systemd's init process does as far as logging is concerned is arrange for output from a service process's stderr channel to go to journald (if the service process doesn't talk to journald directly either via the syslogd interface or else journald's native C library interface). This is (a) very convenient for the authors of service processes, and (b) hardly a difficult or problematic thing to do in principle. Thus it is probably worth the (little) additional complexity in PID 1.

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