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O> This is not meant as a security feature, if that's what your asking.
> It will not prevent services from doing nasty things and escape the
> process that started them. But it's still a feature that today only
> PID 1 and which we need for more processes.

I'm more worried about it beign a security flaw...

> > IOW, imho this doesn't look very useful "in general" to me.
> 
> It is very useful if you have an init-like daemon.

Which is a special case

> 
> > May be we need something else instead... And iiuc you don't really
> > need to change the reparenting, you only want the notification if
> > the process exits.
> 
> No, we want to be the parent of the process, and we want to be the one
> who reaps all the child process, not only receive some out-of-band
> notifications. The sub-init is the babysitter of all the things it has
> started, and that should be reflected in the parent child relation.

Why ?