site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com In message <4473B7CE.6000204@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Charles Gray writes:

The over-engineering possibilities are endless, but the base app seems trivial. I'm sure there are a few sysadmins and other people with similar problems who's like to see such an app available, too.

Yes. And if it were done well it could go into the system, so everyone could use it, and it could be available for startup tasks. Which is sort of the point. Right now, launchd is the world's best replacement for inetd and cron, and doesn't even pretend to address the issues that startup systems usually address. Now, it may be right that these should be addressed elsewhere; in fact, there's a lot of arguments for it. But to say that they should be addressed elsewhere is to say, not "launchd addresses this very well by not even allowing for it", but "launchd doesn't do this, use a better tool for that task". I don't think launchd is a good match for system startup. It's not trying to provide any of the services that startup generally wants. If you want a good startup system that deals well with dependency ordering and such, get NetBSD's rc.d. It works and it solves the problem, and it doesn't step on launchd's area of expertise (on-demand launching) at all. -s _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com