Re: rcd(8) - new service manager daemon

On Mon 15 Jun 15:35, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Am 2026-06-15 08:47, schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> 
> > rcd adds features not in launchd (or beyond what launchd does): native
> > jail(2)
> > integration for service isolation (like recent addition to rcng),
> > rctl(2)
> > resource control (like rcng), OOM protection via PROC_SPROTECT (like
> > rcng),
> > embedded Lua for service hooks, template units for per-instance services
> > (dhclient@em0), and JSON Schema validation.
> 
> Do I understand this and another reply correctly, that it incorporates into
> the rcd binary the "service jails" functionality which I introduced into
> rcng (<service>_svcj="YES" and <service>_svcj_options), but it is not a
> fully functional containerization environment like docker or kubernetes or
> such?
> 
> If I understand this correctly: both thumbs up!

this is exactly your svcj which is what convinced me to release it, because it
was not easy to catchup on this one!
> 
> There is a way of per-instance services in the ports tree. One example is
> www/oauth2-proxy (simplest example without much dependencies). As it rcd
> backward compatible I don't worry about the existing ports tree. My point
> here is: Are you aware of it? And as I have not seen the syntax of your UCL,
> do you think it allows similar flexibility? I have similar per-instance
> template support in www/openhab (but this is more complex to setup in
> testing than the oauth2-proxy).

yes this is called templates in the rcd ucl world.

Best regards,
Bapt