[systemd-devel] Factoring out initctl support (was: Re: [RFC] the chopping block)

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Mack <daniel at zonque.org> wrote:
> Nice, thanks for working on this! What's still missing in that is the
> other side, the client that talks to the initctl socket. I have patches
> to remove the initctl bits from the systemd repo, and add a callout from
> systemctl to binaries in a directory. The initctl client would live in
> that directory, and be automatically called as a fallback then.

I'm not sure what you mean by this; the de-facto "initctl client" is
the telinit binary from sysvinit. There should be no need to
re-implement that.

Are you referring to some other interface? Does upstart do something similar?

> Would you be okay with transferring this repository to the systemd
> organization on GitHub?

I'm happy to move it if others want to utilize it. I will need someone
to set me up with access to push the code, however.