Importing djb's public domain daemontools?
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com
Mon Jan 16 21:16:44 UTC 2012
http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html says:
"What are the distribution terms for daemontools?
2007.12.28: I hereby place the daemontools package (in particular,
daemontools-0.76.tar.gz, with MD5 checksum
1871af2453d6e464034968a0fbcb2bfc) into the public domain. The package is no
longer copyrighted."
FreeBSD could use a lightweight, robust service management framework so we
can finally get rid of the messy and unreliable pidfile concept. UNIX
already provides a much more elegant solution using fork()/exec()/wait() in
combination with the process table. daemontools provides a solid,
time-tested implementation of said mechanism.
There's also an updated version of daemontools by Bruce Guenter at
http://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/ which among other improvements
has support for finish script functionality, which is very useful for
alerting/monitoring of service crashes. Its LICENSE file suggests that it
is released under a BSD-like license.
Thoughts?
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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com
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