[systemd-devel] A potentially cross platform solution forprocess containment in init applications

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:00:47PM +0800, Rong wrote:
> > Also, all big Linux distributions have already switched or have
> > announced that they'll switch to systemd. That's more than we ever could
> > ask for, and there's nothing else for us to win.
> 
> Indeed, systemd is taking over most major linux distributions, but
> this doesn't change the fact that cgroups remains a controversial api,
> and may go through major api update in the future. I think FUSE
> approach is cleaner, even without talking about cross platform
> compatibility.

Great, I suggest you try it out and see how it works.  Patches are
always gladly accepted.

> > I can only encourage the other Unixes to come up with their own service
> > management solutions, that make use of their specific feature set in the
> > best possible way, so that we get some serious competition in place
> > again.
> 
> Is there any plan for standardization on configuration file format, so
> other implementations of init in linux/bsd/whatever could coexist
> using the same set of conf file for daemons? 

I suggest you work with the different BSDs on fixing up their
differences in this area first, it would be a nice thing to have.

good luck,

greg k-h