[Mono-list] Writing daemons in C# - SCM for Linux

[tim@timcoleman.com]

> Hello,
> 
> Mathias Hasselmann wrote...
> >>I'm also voting for the mono based service manager. Additionally to the
> >>compatibility issue I could imagine that we also would gain some
> >>efficience from using a mono based service manager: See the Mono runtime
> >>would be launched only once (potentially faster startup) and as long as
> >>not explicitly requested to deal it different all the services could
> >>life in appdomains of the same mono vm...
> 
> putting all services in one SysV process is a bad idea. Because, if one
> hangs or crashed the hole mono::SCM is crushing. Appdomains are not the solut
> ion.
> For example if a p/invoke process crushed the appdomain has no change to
> recover this process.

I'm not really involved in this discussion, but to me, this solution
of having a mono-based service manager sounds a lot like creating
a mono version of init for mono-based processes.

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