TinyInit - Summary

This group is not part of the GNU Project.

TinyInit is a small modern system init package for UNIX-like systems.

It is specifically targeted at embedded environments, and will work happily on the desktop.

Its main features are:

• Small:

% size /sbin/init
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5399     508    3596    9503    251f /sbin/init

• Fast; services are started and stopped in parallel.

• Dynamic; service dependencies are reported to init program during boot.

• Additional services can be manually started/stopped after boot.

• Simple; unified configuration/rc-mechanism, not two-level inittab + rc-mechanism.

• Can use external rc-mechanism if needed, e.g. Gentoo OpenRC.

• Specifically targeted at embedded environments, in particular:
  • works happily with read-only file systems.
  • performs no explicit dynamic memory allocation.

• Single user mode supported, as instructed by kernel.

• Multi-platform; tested on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

• Complete with utility programs for:
  • service management.
  • daemon management.
  • single-user mode login.
  • multi-shot getty.
  • system halt/poweroff/reboot.

Registration Date: Tue 19 Jul 2011 09:10:00 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta