Re: Controlling Daemons (inetd or aunchd or relaunchd?)

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 11:45:51PM -0600, Qingyao Sun wrote:
> 
> Basically, I would like to make it easier to control general daemons on
> NetBSD. I looked at previous efforts in this aspect, and noticed that a
> GSoC project from last year enhanced inetd with the capability to babysit
> general daemons
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/projects/LDY5asp0z, so I
> am not sure if launchd is still needed. That being said, I don't think the
> inetd enhancement has been merged yet. Another project worth mentioning is
> relaunchd https://github.com/mheily/relaunchd, which is a re-implementation
> of launchd. Should we simply merge that into NetBSD?
> 

Unfortunately, this project is unfinished so it will not be merged in as
it is.  Some good progress was made during the previous GSoC and it
could be used as a basis for further work in the true spirit of open
source :)

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