[launchd-dev] launchd on freebsd

Tsvetomir Dimitrov tsurko at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 22 05:16:00 PDT 2008


Excellent news! Can I help with anything? As I've already said I'm a beginner. Programming is my hobby and I've just started to work as professional C programmer. So if you think I can be useful in some way do not hesitate to write me!
Best regards,
Tsvetomir



----- Original Message ----
From: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at monkeypox.org>
To: Dave Zarzycki <zarzycki at apple.com>
Cc: Tsvetomir Dimitrov <tsurko at yahoo.com>; Damien Sorresso <dsorresso at apple.com>; Launchd-dev <launchd-dev at lists.macosforge.org>
Sent: Monday, 22 September, 2008 7:39:59
Subject: Re: [launchd-dev] launchd on freebsd

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 18:03 -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> Tsvetomir,
> 
> 
> Funny that you should ask. R. Tyler Ballance, the author of the Googleted to 
> Summer of Code project, just emailed me about potentially reviving the
> port. Hopefully our new launchd maintainer, Damien, can help you both
> coordinate any porting activity.

(resending since the mailing list ate my first version)

I'd like to point out that all work on the previous port of mine is
likely a total wash as it was before zarzycki@ made a large chunk of
changes for the version of launchd(8) for Leopard. 

As it stands now I'm working in a Git repository sitting on my FreeBSD
RELENG_6 machine simply working on getting components compiled or
#ifdef'd out such that they will compile on non-Apple systems. 

The approach I intend on taking this time around is to build some CUnit
tests around some of the base levels of functionality before I move onto
the more complicated mach-port-based process management and IPC
mechanisms. I also do not intend on building in any implicit
FreeBSD-isms, as I'd like to take launchd(8) over to my openSUSE
workstations in the future as well ;)


Consider any code you find of mine in the FreeBSD perforce repository as
antique and testament to how much of a n00b I used to be ;)

> 
I'll keep the thread updated on any progress :)


Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
> 
> Best of luck to you all,
> 
> 
> davez
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 21, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Kevin Van Vechten wrote:
> 
> > I'm not aware of any current activity surrounding that effort, but
> > it's something we'd like to see.  Have you checked the list archives
> > to see where things left off? 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sep 20, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Tsvetomir Dimitrov <tsurko at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > There was a Google Summer of code project about porting launchd on
> > > FreeBSD. Is this project still active? Have you got any
> > > information about it or any other similar? I will be very happy to
> > > see launchd working on FreeBSD. Unfortunately I am still a
> > > beginner programmer, but I'll do my best to contribute in my free
> > > time. 
> > > Thank you in advance!
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tsvetomir
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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