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@troglobit troglobit released this 23 Dec 10:56
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3.1-rc1
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Finit v3.1 require libuEv v2.1.0, or later, and libite v2.0.1, or later.

Changes

  • Support for rlimit per service/run/task/inetd/tty, issue #45
  • Support for auto-detecting serial console using Linux SysFS, the new tty @console eliminates the need to keep track of different console devices across embedded platforms: /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyAMA0, etc.
  • Support for calling run/tasks on Finit internal HOOK points, issue #18
  • Removed support for long-since deprecated console DEV setting
  • Cosmetic change to login, pressing enter at the Press enter to ... prompt will now replace that line with the login issue text
  • Calling initctl without any arguments or options now defaults to show status of all enabled services, and run/task/inetd jobs
  • Cosmetic change to boot messages, removed Loading plugins ..., start of inetd services, and Loading configuration .... No end user knows what those plugins and configurations are, i.e. internal state+config
  • Change kernel WDT timeout (3 --> 30 sec) for built-in watchdog daemon
  • Handle /etc/ OverlayFS, reload /etc/finit.d/*.conf after mount -a
  • initctl: Add support for printing previous runlevel
  • initctl: Support short forms of all commands
  • initctl: Support for initctl touch <CONF> to be used with reload
  • initctl: Improved output of initctl show <SVC>
  • Support reloading /etc/finit.conf. The main finit.conf file previously did not support reloading at runtime, as of v3.1 all configuration directives supported in /etc/finit.d/*.conf are now supported in /etc/finit.conf
  • Change .conf dependency + reload handling. Finit no longer relies on mtime of .conf files, instead an inotify handler tracks file changes for time insensitive dependency tracking
  • Change condition handling to not rely on mtime but a generation id.

Fixes

  • Reset TTY before restarting it. A program may manipulate the TTY in various ways before the user logs out, Finit needs to reset the TTY to a sane state before restarting it. Issue #84
  • On .conf parse errors, do not default to set TTY speed 38400, reuse current TTY speed instead
  • Fix run/tasks, must be guaranteed to run once per declared runlevel. All run/tasks on [S] with a condition <...> failed to run. Finit now tracks run/tasks more carefully, waiting for them to finish before
    switching to the configured runlevel at boot. Issue #86
  • Allow inetd services to be registered with a unique ID, e.g. :161, issue #87. Found by Westermo
  • inetd: drop UDP packets from blocked interfaces, issue #88
  • Handle obscure inter-plugin dependency issue by calling the netlink plugin before the pidfile plugin on HOOK_SVC_RECONF events
  • Handle event loop failure modes, issue found by Westermo
  • Handle API socket errors more gracefully, restart socket
  • Fix regression in condition handling, reconf condition must be kept as a reference point to previous reconfiguration, or bootstrap.
  • Fix nasty race condition with internal service stop, abort kill if the service has already terminated, otherwise we may do kill(0, SIGKILL)
  • Fix reconfiguration issue with (very quick) systems that don't have highres timers
  • Fix formatting of runlevel string in initctl show
  • Allow running initctl with STDOUT redirected
  • Fix regression in initctl start/stop <ID>, using name worked not id
  • Fix error handling in initctl start/stop without any argument
  • Fix issue #81 properly, remove use of SYSV shm IPC completely. Finit now use the API socket for all communication between PID 1 and initctl
  • Fix segfault on x86_64 when started with kernel cmdline --debug
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