relaunchd: a portable clone of launchd

[Benno Rice]

Hi Mark!

Are you also looking at constructing equivalents to things like notifyd, configd and asld? What are you using as your comms/RPC framework, if anything?

Thanks,
	Benno.

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 18:55, Mark Heily <mark at heily.com> wrote:
> 
> I've written a clone of the launchd framework found in Mac OS X [1].
> It's called "relaunchd" and I would like to some help improving it and
> getting it added to the FreeBSD ports tree [2].
> 
> Here's the source code:
> 
>    https://github.com/mheily/relaunchd
> 
> One of the coolest things I've been able to do with it is to use
> socket activation to launch an unmodified version of Apache inside of
> a jail, pass it a socket descriptor bound to port 80 from the primary
> network interface outside of the jail, and have it "just work" and
> start serving web content using the pre-existing socket descriptor.
> This eliminates the need to setup a cumbersome NAT and port forwarding
> mechanism for each jail [3].
> 
> This is a completely separate line of development from the work that
> the NextBSD folks are doing to port the published Apple source code
> for launchd and all of it's dependencies.
> 
> I'd be happy to answer questions about relaunchd, and welcome
> contributions from anyone who wants to help make launchd on FreeBSD a
> reality.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - Mark
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204240
> [3] Example: http://kbeezie.com/freebsd-jail-single-ip/
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