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                                 <listitem><para>Tell systemd to run a
                                 system instance (resp. session
                                 instance), even if the process ID is
-                                not 1 (resp. is 1), i.e. systemd is not
-                                (resp. is) run as init process.
+                                not 1 (resp. is 1), i.e. systemd is
+                                not (resp. is) run as init process.
                                 Normally it should not be necessary to
                                 pass these options, as systemd
                                 automatically detects the mode it is
                                 started in. These options are hence of
-                                little use except for
-                                debugging.</para></listitem>
+                                little use except for debugging. Note
+                                that it is not supported booting and
+                                maintaining a full system with systemd
+                                running in <option>--system</option>
+                                mode, but PID not 1. In practice,
+                                passing <option>--system</option> explicitly is
+                                only useful in conjunction with
+                                <option>--test</option>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><option>--dump-core</option></term>
                 as well as in the process of being activated or
                 deactivated, i.e. between the two states (these states
                 are called 'activating', 'deactivating'). A special
-                'maintenance' state is available as well which is very
+                'failed' state is available as well which is very
                 similar to 'inactive' and is entered when the service
                 failed in some way (process returned error code on
                 exit, or crashed, or an operation timed out). If this
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.timer</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
 
                         <listitem><para>Swap units are very similar to
-                        mount units and encapsulated memory swap
+                        mount units and encapsulate memory swap
                         partitions or files of the operating
-                        systemd. They are described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+                        system. They are described in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
 
                         <listitem><para>Path units may be used
                         to activate other services when file system
 
                 <para>Units are named as their configuration
                 files. Some units have special semantics. A detailed
-                list you may find in
+                list is available in
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
 
                 <para>systemd knows various kinds of dependencies,
                 this.</para>
 
                 <para>Application programs and units (via
-                dependencies) may requests state changes of units. In
+                dependencies) may request state changes of units. In
                 systemd, these requests are encapsulated as 'jobs' and
                 maintained in a job queue. Jobs may succeed or can
                 fail, their execution is ordered based on the ordering
                 track of processes. Control group information is
                 maintained in the kernel, and is accessible via the
                 file system hierarchy (beneath
-                <filename>/cgroup/systemd/</filename>), or in tools
+                <filename>/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/</filename>), or in tools
                 such as
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 (<command>ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args</command>
                 ideas behind systemd please refer to the <ulink
                 url="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">Original
                 Design Document</ulink>.</para>
+
+                <para>Note that some but not all interfaces provided
+                by systemd are covered by the <ulink
+                url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise">Interface
+                Stability Promise</ulink>.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
                                 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean
                                 argument. If <option>true</option>
                                 systemd spawns a shell when it
-                                crashes. Otherwise no core dump is
-                                created. Defaults to
+                                crashes. Otherwise no shell is
+                                spawned. Defaults to
                                 <option>false</option>, for security
                                 reasons, as the shell is not protected
                                 by any password
                                 abstract namespace.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><filename>@/org/freedesktop/systemd1/shutdown</filename></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Used internally by the
+                                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>shutdown</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                                tool to implement delayed
+                                shutdowns. This is an AF_UNIX datagram
+                                socket in the Linux abstract
+                                namespace.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><filename>@/org/freedesktop/systemd1/private</filename></term>