Re: rcd(8) - new service manager daemon

On Mon 15 Jun 10:52, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > - 2 (later): Commit init(8) changes to call rcd when present (falling
> >   back to /etc/rc otherwise).  Provide a /etc/rc wrapper that invokes
> >   rcd for systems that want to switch.
> 
> I think that ultimately rcd should _be_ init, and should support
> systemd-style services (where the service doesn't daemonize and logs to
> stderr).  I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect that very little
> is missing to make that possible: rcd needs to be prepared to reap
> processes it didn't fork, and it needs to be able to read /etc/ttys and
> manage ttys (which aren't much different from any other service).

I don't see why it should be init, but that can be discussed.

rcd knows how to reap processes it didn't fork and does it already.
It knows how to daemonize services which doesn't daemonize themselves.

Best regards,
Bapt