Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:17:05 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Importing djb's public domain daemontools? Message-ID: <4F15BB21.50905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <33752E6C-E016-4C7E-92DD-97B531D185E7@bsdimp.com> References: <CAETOPp2Wcww1_fPonru0c6XoX%2BAV_HWoGZKiEMvmY50a5%2ByxRQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F14E291.5090803@FreeBSD.org> <CAETOPp1z0TJecz8kjDvf7trEOS5eogrcqEtDveUYzN=J-SvDNQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F1502CD.90409@FreeBSD.org> <E4B18E7A-74A1-4388-AD79-05DD3E667DAE@bsdimp.com> <4F152475.50503@FreeBSD.org> <33752E6C-E016-4C7E-92DD-97B531D185E7@bsdimp.com>
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On 1/17/12 9:29 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > I have spent time with djb-ites in other areas. I tend to ignore > their ranker and focus on the technical issues. I've had issues with > pidfiles and such in the past. There are a lot of hacks to get around > those issues, and things mostly work. If there's a good alternative > that can be demonstrated to work and gain us additional > functionality, I'm all for it. I've fought with init() to make it > keep important daemons around should they die. I've worked with other > systems that make it easy to do and miss that on FreeBSD. It is > possible, but not easy. If daemontools makes it easy, we should > evaluate it. don't forget other alternatives.. for example we have launchd from apple which is quite a well tested entry in the "init" space of solutions.
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