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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 2015 19:17:47 -0600
From:      Joe Maloney <jmaloney@pcbsd.org>
To:        Mark Heily <mark@heily.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: relaunchd: a portable clone of launchd
Message-ID:  <21B2B211-C52C-4202-BC5F-A190B9C12CD3@pcbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGfo=8nPxY6SW%2B04R4sN_a1udOuVRLEownM4p2Yz5Y8YGvheeA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAGfo=8nPxY6SW%2B04R4sN_a1udOuVRLEownM4p2Yz5Y8YGvheeA@mail.gmail.com>

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Awesome.  Thank you! I will definitely be trying this out.  One =
question.  Are there any plans to convert this work over from json to =
UCL which FreeBSD uses for things like pkg?  It is my understanding that =
UCL can parse json anyway, and is the preferred format for FreeBSD from =
what I can tell?

Joe Maloney

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 6:55 PM, Mark Heily <mark@heily.com> wrote:
>=20
> I've written a clone of the launchd framework found in Mac OS X [1].
> It's called "relaunchd" and I would like to some help improving it and
> getting it added to the FreeBSD ports tree [2].
>=20
> Here's the source code:
>=20
>    https://github.com/mheily/relaunchd
>=20
> One of the coolest things I've been able to do with it is to use
> socket activation to launch an unmodified version of Apache inside of
> a jail, pass it a socket descriptor bound to port 80 from the primary
> network interface outside of the jail, and have it "just work" and
> start serving web content using the pre-existing socket descriptor.
> This eliminates the need to setup a cumbersome NAT and port forwarding
> mechanism for each jail [3].
>=20
> This is a completely separate line of development from the work that
> the NextBSD folks are doing to port the published Apple source code
> for launchd and all of it's dependencies.
>=20
> I'd be happy to answer questions about relaunchd, and welcome
> contributions from anyone who wants to help make launchd on FreeBSD a
> reality.
>=20
> Regards,
>=20
> - Mark
>=20
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D204240
> [3] Example: http://kbeezie.com/freebsd-jail-single-ip/
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