On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, der Mouse wrote:

> [...] One could perhaps make a case for splitting reaping
> orphaned processes off from the others, but I see no reason one of the
> above two couldn't handle that; they both need to handle process
> waiting and reaping anyway.     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Could it be this reason that startup/shutdown and tty management are 
combined in the BSD init?  Just some idle speculation...

--scott