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by cycloptic 1968 days ago
>to do things that have no reason to be platform specific.

If you ever try to port systemd code to non-Linux platforms you will see that this is not true. There are lots of things in Linux that have no real analog on other platforms, and it seems strange to fault a project for taking advantage of those. (BSD is the same way when you get into that too)