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For a real world example imagine trying to allow various syslogs with the initdir where everything is a service you cannot make syslog stop at end (L) and editing and commenting inittab everytime a user changes something is brittle.

Is there a reason to be able to run init not as PID 1?
I've built my system with sninit and it's great but I also use telegraf for monitoring. Thing is, telegraf runs /sbin/init --version which doesn't do anything special in sninit - instead it attempts to reinitialize the system, along with mounting, spawning getty's, services and so on.
Can we either implement --version or at least check if we're PID 1 and if not - refuse to start (or both) ?

Linux has a multitude of various programs that run duplicates and to be useful imo would have to push in more. There are two possible ways to go about fixing this:

1. Create seccomp-bpf switches within run which would become massive due to individual arg checking.
2. Create utilities to chain things together without having to use sh, hopefully as an example:
   /bin/cgexec args /run-as-cmd /bin/unshare args /seccomp-bpf-cmd args

Init can't kill dropbear properly and fails to wait for forkreboot() to complete.

I have no qualms over the GPL but it may help adoption if given a more permissive license.