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From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 01:29:52PM -0800, Jos Backus wrote:

> How much work would this be, you think? Doesn't launchd rely on some kernel
> functionality that FreeBSD doesn't have? Maybe I misremember.

Are you perhaps thinking of systemd, which does use a whole bunch of
Linux-specific features?

There was a GSoC project to port launchd in the past; I have no idea
how much it has changed since then.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd

-Ed