[systemd-devel] RFC: removing initctl support

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:31:25AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya!
> 
> Since a long time systemd has been shipping with two-way compat
> support for /dev/initctl, and I am tempted to remove it. Before I do
> so, I'd like some input on the relevance of this interface:
I'd guess that debian might care, as they are trying to keep
bidirectional compat. Apart from that, meh, probably nobody.
Let's see what they say.

Zbyszek

> a) there's support in systemctl to reboot the system by sending the
>    right bytes to /dev/initctl as fallback, so that you can reboot a
>    sysvinit system with "systemctl reboot".
> 
> b) There's a mini-daemon "systemd-initctl.service" that is
>    fifo-activated on /dev/initctl, and forwards reboot requests from
>    old sysvinit clients to systemd.