Heh, this is a such hypocritical blog :) In the link to bug reports you've provided in this blog post you seem to be talking nicely about low priority problem that does not affect anyone, not showing your anger about this problem and here you bitch. Other detail is that CentOS is +/- exact rebuild of RHEL, so no... you won't get updated SysVinit in CentOS either. If you're smart enough, patch it yourself and build a package with your fix, if not, pay for their people for it and get the hotfix from support group. We are using it in our company quite often.