Any objections to smarden.org tools added to bbox?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sun Jul 9 20:13:19 PDT 2006


On Sunday 09 July 2006 2:17 pm, Goetz Bock wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 09 '06 at 19:41, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > I use the djb's daemontools and ucspi-tcp a lot.
> > However, they are not GPL'ed, but there are very similar
> > replacements, which are:
> >
> > http://smarden.org/runit/
> > http://smarden.org/socklog2/
> > http://smarden.org/ipsvd/
> >
> > I'd like to add these to bbox. Is there a chance that they
> > will be accepted?
>
> If they are small, and GPL I'm sure they will be accepted, but instead
> of runit there is (was?) an minit port to BB, and minit is IMHO a sane
> way to do what runit tries ;-)

I have a toy called oneit that I've meant to add to busybox for a while now, 
but I keep thinking about it during feature freezes.

http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.uml.user/day=20051213

Is this anything like what runit does?  Haven't had a chance to look yet...

Rob
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