SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.09

[tildearrow]

What? System V didn't use glibc, so how come it is incompatible with musl?

Oh no, flamewar incoming...

[Britoid]

What? System V didn't use glibc, so how come it is incompatible with musl?

Oh no, flamewar incoming...

I imagine its this one line commit

https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/pull/21

So it's fixing a clangism/muslism

[Quackdoc]

I wonder if there is a list of "more modern" init systems. I've seen a couple but they all seem oriented for container based workloads. I realize "more modern" is a bit hard to quantify, but im not sure how to better put it

[X_m7]

Today I learned SysVinit is still at least somewhat maintained, I just assumed that the non-systemd people used stuff like OpenRC, runit or s6 instead of the OG SysVinit these days lol.

[archkde]

What? System V didn't use glibc, so how come it is incompatible with musl?

Oh no, flamewar incoming...

"sysv"init does not actually come from System V, it is a Linux-only reimplementation.

[archkde]

I wonder if there is a list of "more modern" init systems. I've seen a couple but they all seem oriented for container based workloads. I realize "more modern" is a bit hard to quantify, but im not sure how to better put it

Yes, that list exists and is as follows (for Linux):

• systemd

[JustK]

Today I learned SysVinit is still at least somewhat maintained, I just assumed that the non-systemd people used stuff like OpenRC, runit or s6 instead of the OG SysVinit these days lol.

OpenRC is built on top of SysVinit, mostly shell scripts.

[Quackdoc]

Yes, that list exists and is as follows (for Linux):

• systemd

sadly I would like one that isnt garbage xD I've been looking into dinit and it seems quite promissing, havent tested it out yet though

[Brittle2]

Yes, that list exists and is as follows (for Linux):

• systemd

lmao, kibda true actually if the others init systems ditched the bash script to something like what systemd do, but differently enough for speed comparstions etc, it could be interesting