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[2018-12-26 00:05] Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
> part       text/plain                1664
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 13:39:17 +0000
> Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org> wrote:
> =

> > Hello!
> > =

> > I am Debian maintainer of `runit' supervision suite. Recently, I
> > received bug report [^1] about stray .u logfiles. After some
> > investigation I found code, that caused issue, but it seems that it
> > was written with some purpose, yet I fail to understand that purpose.
> > =

> > Author Gerrit Pape directed me here. Any clarification would be
> > welcome! Please keep bug in thread.
> > =

> > [^1] https://bugs.debian.org/916230
> [...]
>
> This seems to be an intermittent problem (not reproducible at will),
> and very hard to reproduce by anyone but the bug reporter. If the
> preceding sentence is true, it's possible it will never be solved. In
> such a situation, a workaround becomes a legitimate tactic.

No, it is reproducible. See end of bug thread.