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I've actually listened to the BSD Now podcast episode where they discussed NextBSD… IIRC, launchd is a simple process manager, and it never had anything to do
by floatboth 11y ago
I've actually listened to the BSD Now podcast episode where they discussed NextBSD…
IIRC, launchd is a simple process manager, and it never had anything to do with XML. XML/plists are used in Apple's implementation of launchCTL, the command line client.
http://www.nextbsd.org/welcome-to-ghost/ http://www.nextbsd.org/welcome-to-ghost/ NextBSD is explicitly a "science project" – they don't want upstream FreeBSD to become NeXTSTEP :)
- JdeBP 11y ago> IIRC, launchd is a simple process manager, and it never had anything to do with XML. Everyone thought that, until someone came along and wrote a launchd attempt that put an XML parser into the process #1 program. It was publicized back in 2014. * http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/launchd-on-bsd.html http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/la...