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Author: aitor
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Reaping orphan processes.
Hi,

On 6/3/23 18:47, Rainer Weikusat via Dng wrote:
> The Linux sysvinit is a seriously old and crufty codebase with a lot of
> abandoned mess in it


One of the drawbacks of sysvinit is that it cannot run daemons in the foreground.
As opposed to it, daemons supervised by runit must necessarily run in the foreground,
but often they have been designed to run in the background with sysvinit in mind.

Cheers,

Aitor.