Linuxisms in s6

[Adrian Chadd]

On 24 August 2016 at 21:53, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
<J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> http://adrianchadd.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/freebsd-on-tiny-system-whats-missing.html?showComment=1471236502051#c1305086913155850955
> , Adrian Chadd:
>
>> We're using s6 at work, and it works out mostly ok. Mostly once you get
>> around the linuxisms, and the lack of sensible time code in it (its
>> calculations for daemon run duration is based on system time, not wall
>> clock, so if your box boots jan 1, 1970 then gets NTP, things are..
>> hilarious), and some of the arcane bits to get logging working right.
>>
> What are these Linuxisms in s6?  s6-linux-utils and s6-linux-init have
> Linuxisms, obviously.  But what Linuxisms does s6 have?

We just had a bunch of fun trying to get it to build right, and the
uptime stuff really threw us.

It's fine though, I found that s6 may start growing an IPC mechanism
so we could possibly do a launchd/jobd style service later (ie to run
things upon event changes, like ifup, ifdown, ifcreate, ifdestroy,
arbitrary messages, etc) so I may try incorporating it again. :)



-adrian