[arch-general] Telinit?

[u34 at net9.ml]

u34 at net9.ml wrote:

> David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut?  It used to be 
> > included in systemd-sysvcompat 
> > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but 
> > seems like it recently got removed.  Was it removed upstream?  (And if 
> > so, anyone know why?)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > DR
> 
> What I know is:
> 1. Qouting systemd(1)
> 
>        For compatibility with SysV, if the binary is called
>        as init and is not the first process on the machine
>        (PID is not 1), it will execute telinit and pass all
>        command line arguments unmodified. That means init and
>        telinit are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal
>        login sessions. See telinit(8) for more information.
> 
> 2. systemd package has a telinit manual page.
> 
> I can only speculate about the answers to your other questions.

One more comment is that the 3.8 linux kernel has a new configuration
option CONFIG_DEFAULT_INIT. Is it related?