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Has POSIX ever defined “service manager” as a concept? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798328 points out th
by erik_seaberg 6y ago
Has POSIX ever defined “service manager” as a concept? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798328 points out that glibc’s daemon(3) function isn’t standard but might be a good place to abstract out “do whatever is appropriate for this distro.”
- JdeBP 6y agoSystem administration tooling was famously not addressed by IEEE 1003.1 or 1003.2 originally in the 1980s. It hasn't been addressed since, either. In practice, service managers have been around since 1988. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-service-access-facility.html