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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:13:30 -0600
From:      Jim Thompson <jim@netgate.com>
To:        Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net>
Cc:        Mark Heily <mark@heily.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: relaunchd: a portable clone of launchd
Message-ID:  <3219A8F9-84F0-4A5B-8D22-755FD741032D@netgate.com>
In-Reply-To: <F18891B6-5375-46DC-A781-3CA4B1C211DE@jeamland.net>
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> On Nov 16, 2015, at 9:32 PM, Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> wrote:
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> Hi Mark!
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> Are you also looking at constructing equivalents to things like =
notified,

heh: https://github.com/mheily/stated =20

Mass rename of "notify" to =E2=80=9Cstate=E2=80=9D (22 days ago)
=
https://github.com/mheily/stated/commit/7d1abc85180312421505bd6cda93f82672=
baacb9


> configd and asld? What are you using as your comms/RPC framework, if =
anything?
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> Thanks,
> 	Benno.
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>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 18:55, Mark Heily <mark@heily.com> wrote:
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>> I've written a clone of the launchd framework found in Mac OS X [1].
>> It's called "relaunchd" and I would like to some help improving it =
and
>> getting it added to the FreeBSD ports tree [2].
>>=20
>> Here's the source code:
>>=20
>>   https://github.com/mheily/relaunchd
>>=20
>> One of the coolest things I've been able to do with it is to use
>> socket activation to launch an unmodified version of Apache inside of
>> a jail, pass it a socket descriptor bound to port 80 from the primary
>> network interface outside of the jail, and have it "just work" and
>> start serving web content using the pre-existing socket descriptor.
>> This eliminates the need to setup a cumbersome NAT and port =
forwarding
>> mechanism for each jail [3].
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>> This is a completely separate line of development from the work that
>> the NextBSD folks are doing to port the published Apple source code
>> for launchd and all of it's dependencies.
>>=20
>> I'd be happy to answer questions about relaunchd, and welcome
>> contributions from anyone who wants to help make launchd on FreeBSD a
>> reality.
>>=20
>> Regards,
>>=20
>> - Mark
>>=20
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
>> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D204240
>> [3] Example: http://kbeezie.com/freebsd-jail-single-ip/
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