diff --git a/init/init.cpp b/init/init.cpp
index 9671560..58f5f23 100644
--- a/init/init.cpp
+++ b/init/init.cpp
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@
     }
 }
 
-static void install_reboot_signal_handlers() {
+static void InstallRebootSignalHandlers() {
     // Instead of panic'ing the kernel as is the default behavior when init crashes,
     // we prefer to reboot to bootloader on development builds, as this will prevent
     // boot looping bad configurations and allow both developers and test farms to easily
@@ -956,7 +956,13 @@
     struct sigaction action;
     memset(&action, 0, sizeof(action));
     sigfillset(&action.sa_mask);
-    action.sa_handler = [](int) {
+    action.sa_handler = [](int signal) {
+        // These signal handlers are also caught for processes forked from init, however we do not
+        // want them to trigger reboot, so we directly call _exit() for children processes here.
+        if (getpid() != 1) {
+            _exit(signal);
+        }
+
         // panic() reboots to bootloader
         panic();
     };
@@ -983,7 +989,7 @@
     }
 
     if (REBOOT_BOOTLOADER_ON_PANIC) {
-        install_reboot_signal_handlers();
+        InstallRebootSignalHandlers();
     }
 
     add_environment("PATH", _PATH_DEFPATH);