'Geheimnisse' in German - Dependencies beginning with a '.' (dot) are ignored. So you can temporary disable a dependency moving it to want/.name - Why is the name of the socket "coala"? Well, coala could mean 'cinit object abstract layer access', but perhaps it's a much simpler reason. - cinit will start a little bit faster, if you omit non needed 'wants' and 'needs' dirs, as they need to be scanned, if they exist - Currently there is no support to react on 'ctr+alt+del': 1. It is not handled to switch on / off (Linux: See man 2 reboot and /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del) 2. If the kernel handles it and sends signals to cinit (SIGINT on Linux) they will be ignored. There is no problem in implementing a handler for this signal, the only reason why it is not there (well, a template is in old/sig_special.c) is that noone could tell me what would be the most senseful thing to handle ctrl-alt-del. If you can, I'll perhaps integrate it. - cinit ignores the Keyboard request Same thing with 'ctr-alt-del': SIGWINCH is sent, but I don't know what todo when recieving it. - cinit does not care about its pid nor does cinit care if it is already running in serv/cinit.c is a line calling run_init_svc(). If you call that only if getpid() == 1, cinit will behave like sysvinit Currently cinit has no chance to control whether it's started or not as /etc/cinit/tmp mounted again for every start.