pl-srv

pl-srv or the PortaLinux Init System package is a very tiny init system made specifically for the PortaLinux operating system. It is written in C99 using POSIX calls and the ESB/PortaLinux API. The only component with Linux-specific system calls is pl-init and it's only used to shut down/restart the system.

It is heavily inspired by systemd-init, but it cuts out a lot of the fat.

Components

The pl-srv init system package consists of the following components:

• libsrv: A library containing most of the functionality of the pl-srv and pl-init programs. It is entirely written using POSIX and ESB/PL-API calls, and thus is completely portable and can be compiled and ran on any operating system that fully implements the POSIX.1-2008 API.

• pl-init: A minimal PID 1 program meant to have as little functionality as possible. Its main purpose is to make the system not crash, even if everything else does. It only starts up the pl-srv service supervisor in init mode and then gets into a forever loop that gets rid of zombie processes. This is the only Linux-specific component of the pl-srv package

• pl-srv: A simple service supervisor with a small footprint. This is the main program of this package. It only makes calls to libsrv, which means it is portable and can run on anything libsrv runs on.

Contributions

Contributions will be opened after the full 1.00 release of pl-srv