The screenful of INIT warnings came about because the mgetty process wouldn’t start. As a result, init was continually trying to respawn the process. Determining why the mgetty process might be ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

Supporting systemd required changes to the WSL architecture. As systemd requires PID 1, the WSL init process started within the Linux distribution becomes a child process of the systemd. Because the ...