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Yeah, that's what I mean. I'd be pretty happy if FreeBSD picked up s6, or something else in the daemontools family, if it really wants to go in that direction.

Frankly, even SMF would be better. For all its faults, its still got a good idea of its place: It's an init system, no more, no less.

Here is a list of things I would be concerned about my init system doing: anything other than being a good init system. By coincedence, that's exactly what systemd does.



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