On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> I pushed some changes yesterday that confirm that the Shepherd paves the
> way for init system innovation, synergistic cross-domain fertilization,
> and delimited continuations:
> 
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/log/?id=31d21fa083872d500c016b6b3b2587d25510702d
> 
>   31d21fa * Add REPL service.
>   cd6f3fb * comm: Add 'open-server-socket'.
>   c64804f * Add resource monitoring service.
> 
> These new services are built into shepherd, allowing users to control it
> and to fiddle with it.  The REPL is functional but of course a bit
> bumpy: you’d better know what you’re doing.
> 
> I imagine we could develop more convenient services like this, such as a
> basic command scheduler similar to the ‘at’ command, and a syslogd
> implementation.  The latter could be nice for a couple of reasons:
> logging would happen from the start and till the end (an improvement
> over the external syslogd process), and it could let us provide a nicer
> user interface to view logs (taking inspiration from that of
> ‘journalctl’).
> 
> Thoughts?  Ideas?

I always imagined an 'at' command being part of mcron. Does this mean we
should look forward to shepherdd-mcron?

> PS: It just occurred to me that we might as well rename the new
>     (shepherd service …) hierarchy to (shepherd sheep …) or even
>     (shepherd 🐑 …).

How does shepherd handle emojis for system symbols?

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