RedoxOS init

This repository contains the init system for RedoxOS.

Init is currently being rewritten to support a couple of behaviors that are helpful for running a configurable and robust system. These include:

• Dependency relationships between services
• Parallel service startup and shutdown
• Configuration files for each service, including:
  • Dependencies
  • Methods
  • TODO: Users/Groups for services
  • TODO: Scheme namespaces for services
• Service management
  • Enable and disable services
  • Restart failed services

How To Contribute

To learn how to contribute to this system component you need to read the following document:

• CONTRIBUTING.md

Development

To learn how to do development with this system component inside the Redox build system you need to read the Build System and Coding and Building pages.

How To Build

To build this system component you need to download the Redox build system, you can learn how to do it on the Building Redox page.

This is necessary because they only work with cross-compilation to a Redox virtual machine, but you can do some testing from Linux.