- boots processes in parallel. dependencies are managed by third party
ipc mechanisms
- uses definition files for starting processes
- it manages system and user processes
- it can be controlled by the administrator and users to stop and
restart processes
- it has the ability to run processes on loading, on demand and on
a set time
- monitor and restart long running processes in a flexible way.
restarting crashed daemons are throttled and stopped if needed
- it is small and modular
- can be made robust against buggy system library updates
- computes process start time from cron style time specs precisely.
this allows the cpu to idle longer
TODO
- public admin interface
- fix memory leaks
- RB Tree replacement for timed start and throttle queue
- add options for controlling process resource limits
- add options for setting user and group ids of processes
- extend servctl parser to handle start calendar time
- proper error notification in the servctl parser
- add options to wait for different types of notifications to boot-wrapper.
currently we only handle root fs availability
- launch layer 0 from servctl instead of the process-manager
NICE TO HAVE
- hash table replacement of child_process circular lists
- a way to handle leap seconds in the internal perpetual calendar [facepalm]
- inetd-like capabilities
Build
- how to compile
mkdir build
cd build
make -f ../Makefile