Re: [dev] Announcing sinit - the suckless init

From: sin <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:03:15 +0000

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Eckehard Berns wrote:
> > As part of experimenting with a toy distro I wanted to get rid of
> > busybox's init, so I hacked together sinit[1]. sinit is based on Strake's
> > init[2].
> >
> > It is currently controlled via a FIFO. It supports only two commands (reboot
> > and poweroff).
>
> Why are those included? sinit does nothing but reaping zombies. Using
> it to spawn shutdown scripts seems kinda wrong to me. Why not call the
> shutdown scripts directly to poweroff or reboot the system?

Yes, you can call the shutdown script directly. I was floating between
this decision myself.

I might just as well remove support for that.
Received on Thu Feb 06 2014 - 15:03:15 CET