<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 9, 2015 12:19:23 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] systemd talk from July has slide deck online now<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><br>Any chance of your slapping a free software license on your version of<br>init that you wrote in C? It may not be the init system of our dreams,<br>but it seems to me that every init system I try, I learn a lot. And the<br>simpler the init system, the more true this is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It was a proprietary version I wrote back in 2001. Still in use on the older devices. It manages TTYs, reaps children, </div><div>executes a single rc script at boot which starts all programs, reads not from /etc/inittab but from a shared memory structure in ram with config. It also has no concept of run levels. None needed. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>PID 1 is a very simple concept and can be written for fun. The busybox version just works. Instead of it reading shared memory for config it will read /etc/inittab. That file is built or modded by rcS at boot and then busybox init will re-read it. This is primarily to disable or enable a modem or getty on serial port. This device also has not concept of run levels. None needed.</div></div></div></body></html>