Illumos/OpenSolaris SMF to FreeBSD

[Cy Schubert]

In message <575E8785.4000203 at quip.cz>, Miroslav Lachman writes:
> Cy Schubert wrote on 06/10/2016 19:23:
> > 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.
> >
> > Like DTrace and ZFS, SMF is CDDL. Does that matter?
> 
> 
> There are some work on port of Launchd / ReLaunchd (jobd) / Open Launchd 
> / nosh etc.
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
> https://github.com/mheily/jobd
> https://github.com/freebsd/openlaunchd

I attended MNark's talk, via youtube live stream, at BSDCan. He pointed out 
the issues and that the search continues.

> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#The-nosh-Proj
> ect
> 
> I personally prefer nosh but "anything" should be better than current state.

I come from a mainframe (MVS, z/OS) background working with NetView and 
JES/2 & JES/3, including 10,000 lines of assembler source code mods to 
JES/2. I personally would like to see a mainframe class solution however it 
does not fit the UNIX philosophy. I'm sure we could borrow ideas.


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