On 21 May 2013 21:53, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/05/13 at 18:19 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> Hello, >> > - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, > as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces. >
Well, Colin Watson, Matthias Klose, Steve Langasek, James Hunt and I have discussed the state of the kfreebsd possibility a few times over the past year or so. It boiled down to: if we have waitid & inotify it should be possible to have a reasonable stab at doing a kfreebsd port for the system-wide upstart init (with libnih and mountall). For session init we currently do use prctl to set subreaper, but one can still have session upstart init without that syscall. Was there something else needed? Or can anyone else spot other "big incompatible" chunks of code? As it happens, waitid has been recently implemented in the FreeBSD 9.1 kernel [1]. While inotify is not-essential, it's still very nice to have and it can be reasonably & sufficiently be implemented for upstart's needs using FreeBSD's kqueue/kevent. It was also roughly felt that code base can be kept reasonably tidy by using weak symbols to encapsulate bsd/linux specific parts of the code base, not dissimilar from how other large projects sometimes choose to handle such portability. [1] If I am correct to trust http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170346&cat= Not sure if it is or when it will be available in debian's kfreebsd port Regards, Dmitrijs. Ubuntu, Debian and Upstart Developer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUgm++e4185+a1J=rpy4cpdivvhtkx7uowx0ds66znc...@mail.gmail.com
