syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection

[Ravi Pokala]

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>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:35:38 +0100
>From: Jan Bramkamp <crest at rlwinm.de>
>To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection
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>On 27/01/16 09:27, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
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>I would prefer to implement the a flag keeping cron (and all other base 
>system daemons) from double-forking and run it under a process 
>supervisor like daemontools.

We've recently added that to `syslogd' (r279567, 2015-03-03). I think we also have internal changes (not committed to -HEAD yet) which adds a "run in foreground" option to a few other daemons.

-Ravi (rpokala@)