On 27 Oct 2023 14:52 -0400, from g...@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge): > /sbin/init is what gets executed by the kernel, regardless of what init > system is installed.
Unless, of course, one passes the kernel parameter `init=` pointing to some other executable file, such as /bin/sh. Not saying either is necessarily right or wrong, but the concept of something being "init" is rather deeply entrenched in the *nix world, and probably has been ever since the humble beginnings on that DEC PDP in the late 1960s... -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”