That's been in there since at least Red Hat 6.0, and has spread to
all the derivatives, including mkLinux, Mandrake, Yellow Dog et al.
I agree, it's a great system, even though it only works once the
System V scripts start going. If the kernel could do something like
that (maybe with a "pretty" argument via LILO, and a compile-time
option), it'd make the boot sequence a little less forbidding to
(l)users.
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