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		fbarthez 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process... There's an appropriately minimal comparison with runit in her slides (PDF) from a talk she gave in 2024: https://leahneukirchen.org/talks/#nitroyetanotherinitsy

cout 6 months ago [–]

What I got from looking at that comparison is that runit starts a separate supervisor process for each process started. I like the cleaner process tree of nitro, but I wonder what the tradeoffs are for each.

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