Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 06:03:27 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-arch list <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Illumos/OpenSolaris SMF to FreeBSD Message-ID: <201606131303.u5DD3RGW091675@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> of "Sat, 11 Jun 2016 14:49:02 -0700." <5F7A1097-1B4F-4FA1-BC21-1648E9E5751A@mail.turbofuzz.com>
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In message <5F7A1097-1B4F-4FA1-BC21-1648E9E5751A@mail.turbofuzz.com>, Jordan Hu bbard writes: > > > > On Jun 11, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> wrote: > > > > Having said all that, I don't think that Apple's launchd was meant for > > servers or the enterprise, not to mention they closed-sourced it. We > > probably have to write our own. > > Neither of those things are entirely true, however. > > 1. launchd is agnostic as to workload - there’s nothing particularly “consumer- > centric” about its actual design and it works perfectly well in OS X Server, t > hough of course terms like “Server” and “Enterprise” are also broad enough that y > ou can find both pro and con cases to support either argument so I don’t know > that it even makes sense to go there. > > 2. While it is true that the most recent versions of launchd (in Mavericks / > Yosemite) have not yet been released, you can start with earlier versions and > some might even argue that it makes more sense to do so, as launchd has beco > me somewhat more Apple-centric over time. We had no problems porting the ear > lier versions of it to NextBSD, however, and it’s running there just fine. It > also has an Apache license, just to circle back to the license question. > > There are other reasons that one may or may not wish to use launchd as a serv > ice management framework, and I’m certainly not going to resurrect the old arg > uments with Mark H. over that (been there, done that, no point in reprising t > hem), but neither of those two would make the top-ten list. I attended, via youtube live stream, Mark Heily's talk. Among others, raised the above issues. I too do not want to resurrect old arguments either. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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