> How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems? Maybe the daemons didn't crash so often as now? I never understood t

> How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems? Maybe the daemons didn't crash so often as now? I never understood this new approach, which consists of writing a server process in a half assed way so that it crashes frequently, then solving that by putting a restarter service in front of it, done!