This week's little kerfuffle over systemd and the way that its mechanism to drop
superuser privileges works (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681377
and the headlined bug report there) has led me to observe that whilst the doco
for nosh, s6, daemontools, and daemontools-encore all state
2017-07-01 20:37 GMT-03:00 Steve Litt:
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> So I was wondering what the original intent was in having these two
> directories directly off the root? Is it so the init and supervision
> can proceed even before partition mounts are complete? Is there some
> other reason?
It has been mentioned in
