[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:11:28 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:

> init has been watching processes and restarting them if they crash for
> the 25 years that I've been messing with Linux.

It still does.

Another thing that Linux adds is for some other process to nominate itself 
as a “buck stops here” process. So if any of its indirect-descendant 
processes get orphaned (due to termination of their immediate parent), 
instead of the parent role going straight to PID 1, it goes to this 
ancestor.

Remember, systemd isn’t just a service manager for systemwide services, it 
also works for managing services in per-user desktop GUI sessions. And 
yes, those can get quite complex these days.