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Fork of Systemd Leads To Lightweight Uselessd

Posted by timothy on from the not-big-and-fancy dept.

An anonymous reader writes A boycott of systemd and other backlash around systemd's feature-creep has led to the creation of Uselessd, a new init daemon. Uselessd is a fork of systemd 208 that strips away functionality considered irrelevant to an init system like the systemd journal and udev. Uselessd also adds in functionality not accepted in upstream systemd like support for alternative C libraries (namely uClibc and musl) and it's even being ported to BSD.

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  1. Re:udev by caseih · · Score: 5, Informative

    FUD again. The udev module of systemd does not run under PID=1! Please take a look at how systemd is organized before you post something like this.

    $ ps axf | grep systemd | grep -v grep
        1 ? Ss 0:47 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 16
      247 ? Ss 2:48 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
      603 ? Ss 2:20 /bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
    19211 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
    19260 ? Ss 0:18 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind

    systemd encompasses many things that used to be separate, but that doesn't mean they all run in the same process. Functionality is still kept modular, and you can update systemd without requiring a reboot most of the time. systemctl --daemon-reexec will reload the updated modules.

    I'm not a fan of *ctl commands (hard to type, they don't roll off the fingers), but they are okay.