[14:43] <Milan-BV> Keybuk: hi
[23:31] <jMCg> Hi folks.
[23:33] <jMCg> Wikipedia lists upstarts along with Solaris' SMF, so I was browsing through the feature list and the Wiki, and the bug tracker, but I couldn't find one core feature that SMF has, which I, so far, have failed to find on Linux:
[23:33] <jMCg> SMF can start a service as a certain user/group giving it a certain set of privileges.
[23:34] <jMCg> On Linux this would translate to Capabilities, which is Linux' POSIX 1003.1e implementation of that same concept.
[23:35] <ion> Do you have a question? :-)
[23:35] <jMCg> Yes!
[23:36] <jMCg> Is anybody thinking about, or even actively planning to add such a feature to upstart?
[23:37] <ion> You should ask Keybuk about that when he’s around.
[23:37] <jMCg> On Solaris I can start a (shitty) Java Application Server as unprivileged user, and have it bind to port 80, which is seriously awesome. It would be even awesomer if I could do that on Linux.
[23:38] <jMCg> ion: which timezone does he live in?
[23:39] <ion> If that has not been planned for Upstart, you might very well be able to sell that idea. I would like such functionality for sure, but i’m not the authority on Upstart. :-)
[23:39] <ion> He’s British.
[23:41] <jMCg> https://launchpad.net/~upstart-devel < the only brit I see is scott.
[23:42] <jMCg> Anyways. Thank you for your time.
[23:42] <jMCg> I think I should devote mine now to sleep.
[23:45] <ion> If you do a /whois on Keybuk you’ll notice he’s Scott. :-P