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Subject: Re: Importing djb's public domain daemontools?
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On 1/17/12 9:29 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>  I have spent time with djb-ites in other areas. I tend to ignore
>  their ranker and focus on the technical issues. I've had issues with
>  pidfiles and such in the past. There are a lot of hacks to get around
>  those issues, and things mostly work. If there's a good alternative
>  that can be demonstrated to work and gain us additional
>  functionality, I'm all for it. I've fought with init() to make it
>  keep important daemons around should they die. I've worked with other
>  systems that make it easy to do and miss that on FreeBSD. It is
>  possible, but not easy. If daemontools makes it easy, we should
>  evaluate it.


don't forget other alternatives..

for example we have launchd from apple which is quite a well
tested entry in the "init" space of solutions.