2014-11-10 Had been at the ChaosSeminar where Bjoern talked about init sys- tems, mainly focusing on the current systemd fights. [0] The best description of the situation is IMO this one. [1] It gets the nature of the problems well, I think. Especially, the second to last section (on the background of the actors) is re- vealing (and shows that there we'll unlikely reach consent). The Debian fork idea is worth to have heard about. [2] (Too sad it's not April 1st.) And possibly the most useful information is what is collected here. [3] At the talk, the question, why daemons perform a double-fork(), arose. The answer can be found here. [4] For daemons the preven- tion of ever acquiring a controlling terminal seems to be the main reason. (Double forks with the goal of preventing zombies cane be useful in cases where one program spawns many others but doesn't want to care for them.) [0] http://ulm.ccc.de/ChaosSeminar/2014/11_InitSysteme [1] http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ [2] http://debianfork.org/ [3] http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Prevent_systemd_installation [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/881388/what-is-the- reason-for-performing-a-double-fork-when-creating-a-daemon http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke