Damn it, Apple have a similar thing going in OSX (or whatever their greasy marketing wants to call it this year) but when it was basically offered to the BSDs on a silver platter they didn't want it.
Implying that launchd and SMF are similar shows how little you know about both systems.
Launchd is mostly crappy, obtuse plist files, a semi-broken DAG, socket activation that spins your machine to death.
SMF was an access point to many things, it was clean, concise and pointed you towards the actual things that the OS provided. (like; log files) It was a pleasure to work with.
The only problem was that service definitions were configured with XML, I have never been a fan of XML.
Damn it, Apple have a similar thing going in OSX (or whatever their greasy marketing wants to call it this year) but when it was basically offered to the BSDs on a silver platter they didn't want it.