The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 21, 2014 16:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The Debian init system general resolution returns by ctpm
Parent article: The Debian init system general resolution returns

Why the heck should the init system restart failed crashed processes?

The authors of sysvinit. (What else do you think /etc/inittab is for?)

Who restarts init if it crashes?

Nobody. If init crashes, the kernel panics. (It is quite hard for init to crash: it has a special dispensation to never receive signals for which it does not have a handler, including fatal signals.)