Sorry for the delay. Crazy month, writing this from an Android panel at
CELF I really should be paying attention to. :)
On 02/06/2013 10:10:18 AM, Bas Pape wrote:
Hi all,
Speaking to him on IRC yesterday, Rob requested I send a mail to this
list, so here goes. Having looked at the toybox site, I can say that
my ideas and ideals and those of toybox are quite far apart from
eachother, so don't expect me to have a big opinion about things.
Things that triggered Rob's "I'm interested" response were an init
system (tinit, see [1]) and a fancy unshare[2].
I have downloaded both.
tinit is written from scratch and somewhat crappy at the moment; my
main system is its sole user and it needs quite a few improvements to
make it remotely usable for others. I intend to rewrite it a bit and
replace the profile directory with a single file, to make it easier to
use in containers.
The fancy unshare is something I wrote when I felt like playing around
with namespaces, without having to use lxc.
It's better than my stub. :)
I also have tdev on
github, which is supposed to become a simple device manager at some
point; currently it can parse udev rules (very ugly self written
parser, probably should be replaced by something using ragel) and it
can read a netlink socket. Then there is arpscan, which is somewhat
silly and uses ualarm.
I'm aiming at more of an mdev approach, but need to redesign it based
on top of devtmpfs. And I also need to work out how to support
android's init format, and what Ubuntu's upstart is doing...
That's all I have for now.
I hope to get time to process this sunday. (Saturday I'm onna plane all
day.)
Thanks,
Rob
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