I have limited experience with smf (mostly, I work with people who think it's really awesome and who would punch me if I didn't at least mention it). It seems

I have limited experience with smf (mostly, I work with people who think it's really awesome and who would punch me if I didn't at least mention it). It seems to do a lot of things, which, in turn makes the descriptors a bit more verbose than launchd's. If you have a good resource for introducing writing one of these, I'd love to link to it. In particular, the idea of forking seems to conflict with classic process monitoring. I haven't been a solaris sysadmin in over a decade. I'm hopefully going to be taking care of some modern solaris boxes real soon now, though, so I'm looking forward to what all's changed.