[sysvinit-devel] Testing a new beta

[Jesse Smith]

Hi all. I am testing a new beta snapshot of SysV init. This one carries
the version label 2.90-beta and can be downloaded from the usual
location [1].

This beta mostly focuses on minor code clean-up. A few little issues
were cleaned up and issues with newer compilers (like GCC 7) were fixed.

The shutdown process now recognizes when the computer has been put to
sleep after shutdown was run. Assuming the system clock is accurate, we
now shutdown when originally asked to instead of at the original time +
time spent in suspend mode.

The /run/initctl interface was documented and now has its own man page.

Upon receiving SIGUSR2, init will close all of its files, including its
control pipe. The pipe can be reopened with SIGUSR1.

There have been minor updates to #include directives to handle changes
in the way some defines are packaged, and a few updates to the Makefile
to make building/distributing sysvinit easier.

Fixed a nasty bug where building sysvinit on Fedora would appear to
work, but without properly linking to crypt() causing either a crash or
undefined behaviour.

Those are the highlights and the rest can be found in the tarball's
doc/Changelog file.

These changes have been tested on amd64 and ARM. And I'm hoping this
beta will attract more testers to confirm everything is working properly.

1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/

[Matias Fonzo]

Cool. Another version of sysvinit, We can test it on Dragora -devel.

I suggest to change the -fstack-protector option to
-fstack-protector-strong by default, which provides a good balance
between security, performance. Also, do not forget to distribute an
alternative format, for us.. the people who tries to avoid .xz. :-)

(If you don't like lzip, it could be in .tar.bz2, alongside
the .tar.xz).

Thanks,
Matías

On Mon, 28 May 2018 12:34:30 -0300

Post by Jesse Smith
Hi all. I am testing a new beta snapshot of SysV init. This one
carries the version label 2.90-beta and can be downloaded from the
usual location [1].
This beta mostly focuses on minor code clean-up. A few little issues
were cleaned up and issues with newer compilers (like GCC 7) were fixed.
The shutdown process now recognizes when the computer has been put to
sleep after shutdown was run. Assuming the system clock is accurate,
we now shutdown when originally asked to instead of at the original
time + time spent in suspend mode.
The /run/initctl interface was documented and now has its own man page.
Upon receiving SIGUSR2, init will close all of its files, including
its control pipe. The pipe can be reopened with SIGUSR1.
There have been minor updates to #include directives to handle changes
in the way some defines are packaged, and a few updates to the
Makefile to make building/distributing sysvinit easier.
Fixed a nasty bug where building sysvinit on Fedora would appear to
work, but without properly linking to crypt() causing either a crash
or undefined behaviour.
Those are the highlights and the rest can be found in the tarball's
doc/Changelog file.
These changes have been tested on amd64 and ARM. And I'm hoping this
beta will attract more testers to confirm everything is working properly.
1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/

[Matias Fonzo]

There is no rule to compress the sysvinit tarball using the
chosen compressor. The current tarball (.tar.xz) is a plain tar (GNU).

$ file sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz
sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:58:55 -0300

Post by Matias Fonzo
Cool. Another version of sysvinit, We can test it on Dragora -devel.
I suggest to change the -fstack-protector option to
-fstack-protector-strong by default, which provides a good balance
between security, performance. Also, do not forget to distribute an
alternative format, for us.. the people who tries to avoid .xz. :-)
(If you don't like lzip, it could be in .tar.bz2, alongside
the .tar.xz).
Thanks,
Matías
On Mon, 28 May 2018 12:34:30 -0300

Post by Jesse Smith
Hi all. I am testing a new beta snapshot of SysV init. This one
carries the version label 2.90-beta and can be downloaded from the
usual location [1].
This beta mostly focuses on minor code clean-up. A few little issues
were cleaned up and issues with newer compilers (like GCC 7) were fixed.
The shutdown process now recognizes when the computer has been put
to sleep after shutdown was run. Assuming the system clock is
accurate, we now shutdown when originally asked to instead of at
the original time + time spent in suspend mode.
The /run/initctl interface was documented and now has its own man page.
Upon receiving SIGUSR2, init will close all of its files, including
its control pipe. The pipe can be reopened with SIGUSR1.
There have been minor updates to #include directives to handle
changes in the way some defines are packaged, and a few updates to
the Makefile to make building/distributing sysvinit easier.
Fixed a nasty bug where building sysvinit on Fedora would appear to
work, but without properly linking to crypt() causing either a crash
or undefined behaviour.
Those are the highlights and the rest can be found in the tarball's
doc/Changelog file.
These changes have been tested on amd64 and ARM. And I'm hoping this
beta will attract more testers to confirm everything is working properly.
1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/