Some thoughts

[Dan Melomedman]

On safe strings: Have you considered using a good safe string library,
such as stralloc?

Where can I find information about the new RC system? Personally I use
http://smarden.org/runit/, and it is head and shoulders
above the traditional inits. The scripts are much easier to write, plus
you get service supervision and reliable service shutdown (no stupid pid
files) to boot. It's just a much better design than the traditional RC
stuff.