Operating system service management

In computing, mechanisms and techniques for managing services often differ by operating system. Examples of operating system service management are:

Service Control Manager - Used by Microsoft Windows
launchd - Used by Apple OS X
Systemd - Used by most Linux
Upstart - Used by Google Chrome OS
Service Management Facility - Used by Solaris
Android init - Used by Google Android
sysvinit - Used by older Unix-like operating systems
cygserver - Used by Cygwin
runit - Used by Void

Service management in Unix-like systems

Portable implementations	init Initng runit launchd

Operating-system-specific	Linux systemd Upstart OS X launchd SystemStarter Solaris Service Management Facility

Process supervision tools	daemontools monit runit OpenRC

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