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		<h1>The user-init program</h1>
		<p>
			user-init starts a user supervision tree for
			the user defined in the <code>USER</code>
			environment variable.
		</p>
		<h2>Interface</h2>
		<pre>     user-init</pre>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			user-init takes no arguments.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>USER</code> environment variable,
				if it is empty it exits 100.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>USERTREE</code> environment variable,
				if it is empty it exits 100.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>BUNDLE</code> environment variable,
				defaulting to <code>default</code> if empty.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>PATH</code> environment variable,
				defaulting to
				<code>/command:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/libexec:/usr/local/libexec</code>
				if empty.
			</li>
			<li>
    			if <code>${USER}/${USERTREE}</code> subdirectory of the
    			<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/rundir.html">runtime directory</a>
    			olready existis, it exits 100.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It sets the <code>HOME</code> environment variable based on the result of
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/homeof.html">homeof</a>.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It prepends <code>${HOME}/.local/bin:</code> to the <code>PATH</code>
				environment variable.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It sets the <code>UID</code>, <code>GID</code> and <code>GIDLIST</code>
				environment variables using
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-envuidgid.html">s6-envuidgid</a>.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It runs
				<code><a href="./prepare-svscan.html">prepare-svscan</a></code>
				with the proper arguments.
			</li>
			<li>
    			Finally, it executes into
				<code><a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a></code>
				on the scandir represented by the
				<code>${USER}/${USERTREE}/service</code>
				subdirectory of the
				<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/rundir.html#user">user runtime directory</a>.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Exit codes</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			100 if a critical environment variable is missing.
			</li>
			<li>
    			user-init usually executes into
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan.html">s6-svscan</a>
				which exits according to its documentation.
			</li>
			<li>
    			Since user-init is an
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
				script, it exits with an approximation
				of employed program that failed.
			</li>
			<li>
    			user-init mostly uses
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
				and
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>
				software, the exit behaviour of which can be looked up on
				their respective documentation.
			</li>
			<li>
    			See also:
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/exitcodes.html">execline exit code handling</a>.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Options</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			There are no otions to user-init.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Notes</h2>
		<p>
			More information about user supervision trees
			themselves can be found on the
			<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/supervisiontree.html#user">user supervision tree</a>
			page.
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