Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:10:19 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@turbofuzz.com> To: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nosh version 1.9 Message-ID: <E03E5E72-6A7E-4206-849D-FFBA35B683A0@turbofuzz.com> In-Reply-To: <54482A5E.2050303@NTLWorld.com> References: <54430B41.3010301@NTLWorld.com> <5443191E.5050208@mu.org> <CAJ-VmomhxAkmVpAv5M%2Bh2HiEGnzHuXoZRh=E3LEvcRqbkoJ-5Q@mail.gmail.com> <34F30D28-DE9B-444F-885E-F438FEEA46EC@mu.org> <CAKYr3zwFyOh0VuQew5XtzKCNe0sDe2qc_5Jg3g9hT8pE7SyhJA@mail.gmail.com> <54482A5E.2050303@NTLWorld.com>
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> On Oct 22, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard = <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com> wrote: >=20 > Feel free to thank the valiant and noble failures of the launchd = porters for the fact that there's one alternative to BSD init that = doesn't put an XML parser into the program for process #1. (-: Also, just to correct what has always been a rather blatant = misconception about launchd. Launchd knows *nothing* (NUH-THING) about = XML. There is no XML parser in process 1. Anyone who thinks this has = simply never even looked at how launchd works. It=E2=80=99s completely = agnostic to configuration file formats and wouldn=E2=80=99t know a = configuration file format if one bit it on the ass. That=E2=80=99s = actually one of the more elegant aspects of its design! - Jordan
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