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lelf

> The Linux kernel is much more complex and also brings down the whole system when it crashes

Yeah. And there is nothing good about it.

> Sysvinit runs shell scripts and has known race conditions

Bugs can be everywhere. But the smaller the paramount part the better.

> You must also reboot to upgrade sysvinit

You don't

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>> The Linux kernel is much more complex and also brings down the whole system when it crashes

> Yeah. And there is nothing good about it.

I beg to differ, and I think a lot of people will disagree with you. Regardless, your snarky remark fails to state any problems with the Linux kernel, or identify what you consider a "good" kernel.

He's probably thinking about some kind of micro kernel (which are pretty cool), or redundant CPUs (which probably wouldn't help much)?

I think he meant there is nothing good about complexity and bringing down the whole system on a crash. For the Linux kernel this is probably an unfortunate necessity, for an init system it is not.

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