I'd imagine that if init tried to use the network before the kernel's networking was initialized, you could deadlock though that'd be considered a bug in the in

I'd imagine that if init tried to use the network before the kernel's networking was initialized, you could deadlock though that'd be considered a bug in the init dependencies. The hard part is even visualizing the dependencies with init is tricky. I don't know if that's something systemd explicitly solves, but I try to stay out of userspace (unless the compiler is borked; narrator: it is)