From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
To: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
Cc: systemd development <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Linux cgroups development <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Purpose of init.scope
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:02:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoHfAHdsX6kE9msj@gardel-login> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6dd3b7a-18ba-4b0a-bc5f-9c92d8b2aa7f@gmail.com>
On Mi, 29.07.26 16:13, Demi Marie Obenour (demiobenour@gmail.com) wrote:
> What is the purpose of having PID 1 in init.scope? Is it functionally
> necessary, or is it solely for consistency with when systemd is
> running in a container or as a user service manager?
PID 1 needs to live somehwere, so that's where we put it. Where else
would you put it?
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-16 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 20:13 Purpose of init.scope Demi Marie Obenour
2026-08-02 13:40 ` [systemd-devel] " Barry Scott
2026-08-16 16:02 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2026-08-17 11:32 ` SCOTT FIELDS
2026-08-18 18:02 ` Demi Marie Obenour
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