Of course this goes to a General Resolution

Posted Feb 12, 2014 6:21 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Of course this goes to a General Resolution by mbt
Parent article: The Debian technical committee vote concludes

> This process which is supposed to run at PID 1 has open sockets, sits on top of an IPC system, has logging and configuration files all over the place, handles device events, makes hooks for a GUI tool, and deals with a stream of login credentials

Almost none of the things you described live in PID 1. udev, logind, and journald all live in separate processes. And as for "login credentials", systemd actually goes to great pains to never invoke NSS from PID 1.