Hi! On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 01:47:42 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 22 May 2013 01:16, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > Am 22.05.2013 02:00, schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: > >> On 21 May 2013 21:53, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > >>> On 20/05/13 at 18:19 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > >>> - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, > >>> as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces.
> >> Well, Colin Watson, Matthias Klose, Steve Langasek, James Hunt and I > >> have discussed the state of the kfreebsd possibility a few times over > >> the past year or so. I started porting libnih and upstart to GNU/kFreeBSD some months ago, just for fun, whenever I had nothing else to do. But then I'm not interested in assigning my copyright to a for-profit company that is not employing me (and no, this is not a job request); so I didn't post anything yet, because I don't use upstart, didn't want to promise anything (still don't), and it would present as an _interesting_ situation for the Debian upstart maintainers (either reject the patches or carry them forever as a small fork...). > >> It boiled down to: if we have waitid & inotify it should be possible > >> to have a reasonable stab at doing a kfreebsd port for the system-wide > >> upstart init (with libnih and mountall). For session init we currently > >> do use prctl to set subreaper, but one can still have session upstart > >> init without that syscall. > >> > >> Was there something else needed? Or can anyone else spot other "big > >> incompatible" chunks of code? > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/07/msg00122.html I think I've posted this multiple times, whenever those items lists are posted: <http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/ports/porting> > Going down the list: > > - inotify - internetz tell me kevents/kqueue is the way to go > - waitid() - issue closed in FreeBSD in February 2013, is it usable? > - epoll, eventfd, signalfd, timerfd - again internetz tell me > kevents/kqueue can do all of this, better yet there is libevent that > can do those portably across linux and bsd > - ptrace - FreeBSD does have ptrace - differences in api/capabilities? ptrace has some parts commonly implemented in most (if not all) Unices, and some other system specific ones. > I didn't know about either of these =) looks awesome. Need to look > into how upstart is using those, to see how necessary those are and > how to implement them on FreeBSD. > - netlink proc connector > - netlink udev interface > > > Nothing really happened since 2009, so I wouldn't hold my breath > > regarding a *BSD port. > > Apart from FreeBSD folks implementing just recently waitid()?! =))) > That's huge. <20121124212846.ga10...@gaara.hadrons.org> <20121124232556.ga17...@gaara.hadrons.org> As mentioned on the porting guide above, waitid() should be replaceable with kqueue's EVFILT_PROC anyway. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130522020933.ga15...@gaara.hadrons.org