Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:12:23 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Atte_Peltom=E4ki?= <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi> Cc: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com>, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>, openrc@gentoo.org, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times) Message-ID: <4FDF6177.5050608@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120618081140.GK96212@ass.kameli.org> References: <20120615124849.GI96212@ass.kameli.org> <CAKYr3zxSOFOUghqao=3U_8sBNHwqce8AGK6mSFd6is11qzjS8w@mail.gmail.com> <20120618081140.GK96212@ass.kameli.org>
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On 18/06/2012 09:11, Atte Peltomäki wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:43:37PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Atte Peltomäki <atte.peltomaki@iki.fi> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:09:38PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: >>>> Also, I am certain that the OpenRC developers would be thrilled if >>>> FreeBSD adopted OpenRC. If FreeBSD core is interested in OpenRC, feel >>>> free to contact the OpenRC and/or the Gentoo FreeBSD developers. We >>>> would all love to see OpenRC in upstream FreeBSD. >>> Replacing rc(8) has a lot of risks and not many benefits. Current system >>> is somewhat limited, but it works, it's simple to understand and >>> everyone already knows it and uses it. >>> >>> Solaris SMF is by far the most advanced bootup/service manager I've come >>> across, [...] >>> >>> Personally, as much as I like power of SMF, I think FreeBSD devs have >>> much more important (and interesting) things to do. >> Theres always Launchd also......... > Launchd is strikingly similar to SMF, which probably isn't a > coincidence, knowing how much other code Apple pulled from Solaris > during those days. > There was even some work done to get it working for FreeBSD if anyone feels like taking it up again. http://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
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