Opinions on SMF

[joris dedieu]

> could easily be tacked on to rcng with a bit of ingenuity, and probably by using
> simple shell conventions or minor tweaks to 'rcorder'/'rc.subr', etc. rather
> than strict / annoying / static verification, and without destryoing the
> simplicity and elegance of rcng either for the common case


I agree.

There are already  some initiatives that already try to answer those problems

- FreeBSD Services Control (monitoring, restarting)

http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/trhodes/fsc-1.0.1.tar.gz

-  Parallelism

https://github.com/kil/rcorder
https://github.com/buganini/rcexecr

You can also think on jails for children containment (what systemd is
currently doing with cgroups).

IMHO working with small simple feature improvement  with rcNG glue is
a better way than introducing an SMF / launchd monster

Cheers
Joris