KatolaZ - 17.10.18, 16:58:
> process supervision and management system. Which is probably 90% of
> the reason why systemd needed to fagocitate the whole low-level
> user-space (please remember that the only way to reliably know that a
> process is dead under unix is to be the parent of that process....).

AFAIK runit does just that. It stuffes a parent process before each
service.

Thanks,
--
Martin