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David Chisnall writes:

> I'd love to see a generic process manager in the base system 
> that subsumes devd and inetd written in Lua, [...]

Back in 386BSD+patchkit days I changed inetd(8) so that you could
write Tcl scripts in inetd.conf, and let them decide what you wanted
to happen.  It did everything tcpwrappers did, and then some.

> I'd love to see a default that anything intended to run with 
> elevated privilege is written in Lua.

Can you elaborate that one ?

Do you mean "setuid programs" or "500 root programs" ?

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