On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Eckehard Berns wrote: > > As part of experimenting with a toy distro I wanted to get rid of > > busybox's init, so I hacked together sinit[1]. sinit is based on Strake's > > init[2]. > > > > It is currently controlled via a FIFO. It supports only two commands > > (reboot > > and poweroff). > > Why are those included? sinit does nothing but reaping zombies. Using > it to spawn shutdown scripts seems kinda wrong to me. Why not call the > shutdown scripts directly to poweroff or reboot the system?
Yes, you can call the shutdown script directly. I was floating between this decision myself. I might just as well remove support for that.
