> OpenRC gives some of this, but bash is an abomination and anything larger than 2-3 lines will have bugs. I don't really see what it's giving you over an open-source binary that parses trivial .ini-like files that have pretty good portability across systems.

Hey, hun. Here's an OpenRC service file that's nearly as small as it can get. [0] I don't know about you, but that OpenRC service file looks a whole hell of a lot like a Unit file to me. Do you disagree?

If you replace line 14 with

  supervisor=supervise-daemon

OpenRC also does parallel service start and stop. I've been using it for... ten years now with no problem.

[0] <https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/29f620c16036586c39ec17...>