<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewontfix.com&#x2F;14&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ewontfix.com&#x2F;14&#x2F;</a> is one of the classic posts here, but it deserves a good rebuttal, not the straw-man one included. (The starting point I&#x27;d make is, if init were really as simple as purported, why isn&#x27;t it built-in to the kernel? Why not simply skip all the kernel code to reparent children to init, and have children die immediately instead of becoming zombies if their parent has exited? Why not remove all the code to panic if pid 1 dies, and make it just a process like any other?)