nosh init system

[Cy Schubert]

On February 8, 2019 1:51:16 PM PST, Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
>Hi Sidju,
>
>On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:52 PM Sidju via freebsd-hackers
><freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I might be missing something since I have only been in the group for
>a few months, but is anyone looking at the "nosh" init system (
>https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/ )?
>
>Not that I know of.
>
>> From what I have read there is some talk of writing a new init
>system; is nosh known to be bad in some way or just obscure (it did
>take me a decent while to find)?
>
>It's good to be use precise terminology when discussing these things,
>because confusion can lead to the wrong idea and pedantic arguments.
>To be clear, FreeBSD isn't missing an *init*, which serves to launch
>pid 2 and reap zombies.  We're missing a half-decent service
>management system.  On Linux, systemd performs both roles.  On
>FreeBSD, init(8) serves one role, and rc(8) is a tiny subset of a real
>service management system like systemd.
>
>(I think the piece we would consider replacing or supplementing would
>be rc(8).  Part of that might be migrating some responsibilities from
>pid 1 to pid 2, such as spawning gettys.  I don't hold strong opinions
>about that.)
>
>Nosh may be useful for inspiration (and portions may be used directly;
>it's MIT and BSD licensed).  I haven't taken a thorough look at it,
>and I don't know of anyone else who has either.  I don't believe it is
>suitable to be dropped in (for a host of reasons, not all technical),
>but I could be persuaded I am mistaken.
>
>Best regards,
>Conrad
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I've been partial to Solaris (illumos) smf,  started by init (through their sysv inittab). CDDL may not be palatable to some but if we could I'd consider it again.

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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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