jfb2 writes in Bug 119:

jfb2 writes in Bug 119:
The init applet will restart (re-exec) itsself when it
receives a SIGHUP. However, just before it enters its
main loop, it resets SIGHUP to either re-load the inittab
(or ignore it if no inittab is used). Thus preventing
the re-exec option from being triggerable.

This patch adds a signal handler for SIGQUIT for init that
always causes init to re-exec itsself (along with killing
anything else that might be still running).