Re: rcd(8) - new service manager daemon

On Mon 15 Jun 20:29, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:54:47 +0200
> Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 15 Jun 10:52, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> writes:
> > > > - 2 (later): Commit init(8) changes to call rcd when present (falling
> > > >   back to /etc/rc otherwise).  Provide a /etc/rc wrapper that invokes
> > > >   rcd for systems that want to switch.
> > > 
> > > I think that ultimately rcd should _be_ init, and should support
> > > systemd-style services (where the service doesn't daemonize and logs to
> > > stderr).  I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect that very little
> > > is missing to make that possible: rcd needs to be prepared to reap
> > > processes it didn't fork, and it needs to be able to read /etc/ttys and
> > > manage ttys (which aren't much different from any other service).
> > 
> > I don't see why it should be init, but that can be discussed.
> > 
> > rcd knows how to reap processes it didn't fork and does it already.
> > It knows how to daemonize services which doesn't daemonize themselves.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> If there are any issues with systemd because of its pid being 0
> on Linux, rcd would better NOT replacing init on FreeBSD not to
> become pid 0.

pid 1 not pid 0 and as I said already it is not replacing init!
> 
> But it would be worth discussing whether init should invoke
> both rcd and sh or invoke only rcd and let rcd to invoke sh,
> or invoke only sh and let sh to invoke rcd.
> 
> It may matter on single user mode.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Tomoaki AOKI    <[email protected]>