Illumos/OpenSolaris SMF to FreeBSD

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hi Cy;

> Hi,
>
> What are people's thoughts about porting Illumos Service Management
> Facility (SMF) to FreeBSD? The Solaris SMF didn't replace their init(8),
> it's started by their init(8) through inittab -- we could use ttys or
> replace init.
>

Is this something that could live in ports ... at least for a while?
It appears there are many options and it's great to be able to choose,
but I doubt we want to compromise right now on which,

> Like DTrace and ZFS, SMF is CDDL. Does that matter?

Yes, everything matters. As with all weak-copyleft, a requisite is
that it cannot be made mandatory.

Pedro.