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		NewJazz on April 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian still having trouble with merged /usr You say this, but systemd-udevd at one point would sigkill every process on the system if it was not started under systemd (or otherwise in its own cgroup).

throw0101a on April 6, 2022 [–]

And udevd used to be it's own stand-alone daemon which didn't need systemd at all, but for some reason it is now essentially tied to it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudev

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