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* Charlie Brady:

> Can you think of any reason why runsv *shouldn't* make the supervised
> process a process group leader? It'd take very little code ...

how about this one:  there might be a *vital* service running on the
machine which you *want* to bring the machine down in case it fails.

with the current behaviour, the user can choose to give it its own session
using "chpst -P ..." as an additional option.

  clemens