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GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD

Posted by timothy on from the everyone's-idea-of-a-good-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes Through a Google Summer of Code project this year was work to emulate systemd on OpenBSD. Upstream systemd remains uninterested in supporting non-Linux platforms so a student developer has taken to implementing the APIs of important systemd components so that they translate into native systemd calls. The work achieved this summer was developing replacements for the systemd-hostnamed, systemd-localed, systemd-timedated, and systemd-logind utilities. The hope is to allow for systemd-dependent components like more recent versions of GNOME to now run on OpenBSD.

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  1. /etc/inittab by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and rc.d it's so simple. I'm still struggling to understand why systemd is required - what problem it is actually solving. Am I missing something?

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    1. Re:/etc/inittab by antientropic · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It's so simple that it's broken. See for example http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/s... for a nice overview of all the limitations of SysV init, the most important being that it doesn't actually keep track of what services are running and what processes belong to what services.