Any idea what the purpose is to this? I'm not putting it down, I'm just looking for context. The annotations say this work is being done at iXsystems, best known for being the stewards of FreeNAS, but this project seems to be separate.
Disappointing really, but I think it's unlikely to make it upstream. Perhaps I've missed some of the advantages to taking this approach though.. Or .. any of them?<p>I'd be completely onboard with SMF replacing the init system on all my fbsd boxes though (I have many on bare metal with linux under bhyve for various things that need it).<p>I don't think that's an easy port though with the contract system etc solaris had for process accounting.<p>Ahhh. I miss solaris. FreeBSD is almost where we were feature wise before oracle killed it (zfs, dtrace, jails(iocage) etc).
I wish they would outline their plans to integrate these technologies with FreeBSD. It is time for Apple (by way of their innovations) to feed the base which they used to build Mac OS X. How willing is the FreeBSD upstream to integrate these?
Jordan Hubbard mentions some of his reasoning behind going back to what he did at Apple (among other things) in this thread: <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-August/048090.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-Aug...</a>
As a FreeBSD user, developer, and fan, I'm excited that they are digging into some of this stuff. My amateur question is just wonder if adding a ton of new KPIs is really necessary, or could be done in a more holistic thinking way.
A curious (and probably unintended) side effect, is that if its implementation of the Mach API is complete enough, this should allow to run Hurd user space server/translators on FreeBSD.<p>Not sure if useful, but would be cool (in a weird, nerdy way) anyway.
"launchd clubs UNIX's 'keep it simple' philosophy like a baby harp seal'...Hint: the world has changed!"<p>Yeah -- Unix completely dominated essentially every market niche, utterly annihilating all competing philosophies so hard you'd think it was drilling for oil.