• Contact: tech-userlevel
• Mentors: Christos Zoulas
• Duration estimate: 350h

Launchd is a MacOS/X utility that is used to start and control daemons similar to init(8), but much more powerful. There was an effort to port launchd to FreeBSD, but it seems to be abandoned. We should first investigate what happened to the FreeBSD effort to avoid duplicating work. The port is not trivial because launchd uses a lot of mach features.

Milestones:

• report of FreeBSD efforts (past and present)
• launchd port replacing: init
• launchd port replacing: rc
• launchd port compatible with: rc.d scripts
• launchd port replacing: watchdogd

Nice to have:

• launchd port replacing/integrating: inetd
• launchd port replacing: atd
• launchd port replacing: crond
• launchd port replacing: (the rest)