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I really like that it takes some things from SMF. I honestly don't think that porting all of Mach over just to get launchd is a great idea...

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... still leaving you, after you subtracted SystemXVI because of the licence and launchd because of the XNU stuff that had to be ported to support it, with at least one BSD-licensed non-Mach replacement for rc.d already available.

Except that due to it being of the daemontools family, it doesn't get the same sort of treatment as something like SystemXVI or SystemD. Sadly.

Looking at some of the treatment that SystemXVI has received so far, I'm not sure that it's entirely a sad thing. (-:

In happy news, nosh has a picture and a Burns allusion:

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

Its only the IPC layer...

... and it is thus in the same boat as systemd.

The IPC layer for getting launchd to work involves amongst other things FreeBSD kernel changes to support the Mach IPC API; similarly to how the systemd people have already achieved (subreapers) and have been pushing for further (kernel Desktop Bus) kernel changes for systemd's benefit; and indeed much like how IBM AIX gained kernel augmentations for supporting the System Resource Controller: the SIGFORCE and SIGNORM signals and the SRC_kex.ext extension.

vezzy-fnord is I suspect refraining from pointing to http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127120). (-:

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