From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 12:55: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2201B14C24 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA12237; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:54:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:53:42 PST." Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:54:49 +0100 Message-ID: <12235.945291289@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Matthew Jacob writes: >> > >> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init >> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep >> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and >> similar should be restarted if they die. >> >> No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has. I'm sure >> a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are >> poured into the problem. >> > >Isn't this throwing an awful lot onto init? Not really... The meta-daemon part is no different from keeping gettys in the air... The devd thing consists of selecting on some magic fd and running a program when something happens. This could be done with a getty like daemon too of course. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message