Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:54:49 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) Message-ID: <12235.945291289@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:53:42 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151253240.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912151253240.22090-100000@semuta.feral.com>, 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
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