[systemd-devel] Factoring out initctl support

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Daniel Mack <daniel at zonque.org> wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 03:55 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I'm referring to systemctl's own implementation, which is used when PID1
> is not systemd. See talk_initctl() in systemctl.c. I'd move that out to
> an own binary, and add a generic callout mechanism to systemctl (which I
> already did).

Oh, I see. I had no idea systemctl has such code.

> What also missing in your repository is the manpage and a README.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Great, will do. What's your GitHub handle?

I'm floppym on github.