From: Tom Rhodes on
Hey,

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:25:03 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb(a)FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 07/20/10 16:46, Jos Backus wrote:
> > Fwiw, I would much prefer FreeBSD ship with some sort of process supervisor
> > a la daemontools.
>
> That's an interesting idea, but until we have someone willing to
> actually do that work we need to deal with what we have.
>
>

I wrote one. It's in the latest status report that, I gues,
will be released soon. :)

--
Tom Rhodes
_______________________________________________
freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"

From: Dominic Fandrey on
On 17/07/2010 12:56, Ed Schouten wrote:
> ...
>
> This has various implications. The most important one I can think of, is
> that the daemon can still do open("/dev/tty", ...) if it wants and spam
> your TTY, even if the daemon is running as user `nobody'. This also
> means that if you run the rc script from within a pseudo-terminal, it
> can never actually destroy the pseudo-terminal for you, because maybe
> the daemon is interested in using it.

What is not clear to me, in which way is that a problem?

Regards

--
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
_______________________________________________
freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org"