Importing djb's public domain daemontools?

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jan 17 12:53:38 UTC 2012


On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 01/16/2012 22:32, Jos Backus wrote:
> ...
>> I thought the motto was  "tools, not policies" ;)
>
> Right now you have options (or tools if you will). If the base were
> redesigned to use daemontools it would be very difficult to retain those
> options.
>> ...
>> Straw man. I'm asking for FreeBSD to *support* this functionality out of
>> the box, just like OS X, Solaris, AIX and some Linux versions (with
>> systemd).
>
> If you can come up with patches to make both options possible out of the
> box, I'm sure that people would be interested in reviewing them.

Nah, he must also maintain both versions forever :-).

Bruce


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