pfirsich/cm4all-spawn

Daemon which provides services to other daemons wishing to spawn child processes

spawn

spawn is a daemon which provides services to other daemons wishing to spawn child processes

For more information, read the manual in the doc directory.

Building spawn

You need:

• a C++20 compliant compiler (e.g. gcc or clang)
• Meson 0.56 and Ninja
• libfmt
• LuaJIT

Optional dependencies:

• libcap2 for dropping unnecessary Linux capabilities
• libseccomp for system call filter support
• libsodium
• libpq for PostgreSQL support in Lua code
• systemd

Get the source code:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CM4all/spawn.git

Run meson:

meson setup output

Compile and install:

ninja -C output
ninja -C output install

Building the Debian package

After installing the build dependencies, run:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -us