> Previous inits were glorified loop { fork() } programs. Maybe (I'm not an expert on old init systems), but current inits aren't that. > The issue to be solv

> Previous inits were glorified loop { fork() } programs. Maybe (I'm not an expert on old init systems), but current inits aren't that. > The issue to be solved is: how to determine parallelism in boot I think you're replying to another comment of mine. At any rate, there were and are alternative solutions rising to meet this challenge - which involve nothing like the behemoth which is systemd. Examples: OpenRC, runit, GNU Shepherd (sort of). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC