Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

[Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net>]

On 27 Oct 2023 14:52 -0400, from greg@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge):
> /sbin/init is what gets executed by the kernel, regardless of what init
> system is installed.

Unless, of course, one passes the kernel parameter `init=` pointing to
some other executable file, such as /bin/sh.

Not saying either is necessarily right or wrong, but the concept of
something being "init" is rather deeply entrenched in the *nix world,
and probably has been ever since the humble beginnings on that DEC PDP
in the late 1960s...

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