arg_system == true and getpid() == 1 hold under the very same condition this early in the main() function (this only changes later when we start parsing command lines, where arg_system = true is set if users invoke us in test mode even when getpid() != 1. Hence, let's simplify things, and merge a couple of if branches and not pretend they were orthogonal.
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