The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system

After the recent announcement that the FreeBSD boot scripts in /etc have been replaced with the next generation version imported from NetBSD, I’ve wanted to learn more about the new system, but wasn’t able to find much info. However, I managed to find a great document called “The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system” by Luke Mewburn of Wasabi Systems, Inc.


The document explains in detail, what are the reasons for the new system, it’s strong and weak points and it’s differences to other init systems. Although the document is focused on the original NetBSD implementation, the vast majority of information applies to FreeBSD as well.

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