Re: [dev] [wiki] Add suckless init

From: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:14:16 +0200

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:53:27AM -0500, Bryan Bennett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:46 AM, sin <sin_AT_2f30.org> wrote:
> > The busybox init code is far from pretty. I have not personally looked
> > at ignite so I don't know.
>
> I'm personally using minirc[1] on a number of boxes (which makes use of
> busybox's init and busybox's mdev, or some implementation of udev, of
> which I've picked eudev over systemd's). You guys might like it. It's
> POSIX shell with some interesting choices.

Cool, I'll have a look at it. I work on a toy distro[1] mainly for
testing sbase + ubase + other interesting ideas. At the moment it uses
busybox init with some barebones rc scripts[2] + smdev[3].

> > David Galos wrote a small init which you might be interested in.
> > Check it out at: http://galos.no-ip.org/qinit
>
> This looks really interesting. I might try it out this weekend. Thanks for the
> link

Beware, I think there are some races in the code. I tried to use it
on my distro and it required a considerable amount of hacking before I could
get something that worked most of the time. I might be able to dig up
my code and send it to you.

[1] http://git.2f30.org/morpheus/
[2] http://git.2f30.org/fs/
[3] http://git.2f30.org/smdev/

bye,
sin
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