>>>>> "Giles" == Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> writes:
    Giles> 1. runlevels 2. respawning of daemons

    Giles> To take the second point first, this is trivially done via:

    Giles> #! /bin/sh

    Giles> while : do "$@" done

  No true.
  1) this is vulnerable to /bin/sh disappearing, bring broken, etc.
  2) the script can be killed

  As pid=1, if init dies, the system dies. 

  Some people want to build systems that are too small to have /bin/sh.
I've seen lots of Xenix 286 systems like this as POS terminals.
  Other than that, I agree with you.

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