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A launchd(8) port for non-Darwin systems

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2013-12-11 · latest 2014-10-31

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  1. It's already running. https://github.com/outbackdingo/launchd_xml https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd Works on 10.1
    comment by gonzo · 2014-10-31 · in OS X 10.10 – Source Code
  2. …posts in over a month, and it's not clear that it's even been successfully compiled on FreeBSD yet. https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd
    comment by duskwuff · 2014-05-13 · in What's wrong with systemd
  3. …was apparently an effort to port it to FreeBSD - https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd and more recently https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd/blob/master/README.md .
    comment by vvhn · 2014-05-11 · in What's wrong with systemd
  4. …to know why none of the Linux distros have looked at using launchd? It's being ported to FreeBSD ( https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd); is there some reason it couldn't work with Linux, or is it just being overlooked/ignored? I have…
  5. …most conversations about init systems and FreeBSD degenerate into flame wars [3]. [1]: https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd [2]: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg//2013/07/13/systemd-not... [3]: http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t…
  6. Here's the link to the port-in-progress of launchd to FreeBSD, if anyone is curious: https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd
  7. …Apple's open-sourcing of launchd, the FreeBSD port of which was just relaunched (no pun intended): https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd But yes, as some GPL proponents will point out, there are companies who use FreeBSD for their…
    comment by profquail · 2013-12-11 · in FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 now available