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Re:Broken by design: systemd by mmphosis on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:42PM (#7208036)
and, launchd is like a second mach kernel at a higher level. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
Re:Broken by design: systemd by teacup50 on Sunday February 09, 2014 @11:46PM (#7209191)
Except for the part where launchd doesn't implement anything other than traditional process/service launch and termination, and doesn't violate the layering boundaries between system components.

In a launchd system, there's absolutely no dependency on launchd by userspace software.