launchd for Linux

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:17:07PM -0400, UbuWu wrote:
>
>Ruben Vermeersch Wrote: 
>> given the time that would probably needed to port this to linux, why
>> not just re-implement it right away, under the GPL?
>
>Wouldn't that just give you almost the same as initng??

Probably you are right! There is one big difference though, launchd is
being used in systems all over the place due to it being part of OSX,
initng isn't offered as part of any distro (AFAIK).

Has anyone any idea of how much work it'd be to include it in Ubuntu.
(Maybe it'd be best to introduce it in Debian at the same time?) Any
estimations on how much work it'd be to convert existing packages to use
it?

I've understood one of Ubuntu's goals is to bring down boot time, isn't
init under scrutiny already then?

/M

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