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What are the children of the root guardian?

/user is the guardian actor for all user-created top-level actors; actors created using ActorSystem.actorOf are found below this one.

/system is the guardian actor for all system-created top-level actors, e.g. logging listeners or actors automatically deployed by configuration at the start of the actor system.

/deadLetters is the dead letter actor, which is where all messages sent to stopped or non-existing actors are re-routed.

/temp is the guardian for all short-lived system-created actors, e.g. those which are used in the implementation of ActorRef.ask.

/remote is an artificial path below which all actors reside whose supervisors are remote actor references.

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