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@troglobit troglobit released this 04 Mar 16:03
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1.12
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The inetd release.

Changes

  • Add support for built-in inetd super server -- launch services on
    demand. Supports filtering per interface and custom Inet ports.
  • Upgrade to libuEv v1.1.0 to better handle error conditions.
  • Allow mixed case config directives in finit.conf
  • Add support for RFC 868 (rdate) time plugin, start as inetd service.
  • Load plugins before parsing finit.conf, this makes it possible to
    extend finit even with configuration commands. E.g., the time.so
    plugin must be loaded for the inetd time/tcp internal service to be
    accepted when parsing finit.conf.
  • Slight change in TTY fallback behavior, if no TTY is listed in the
    system finit.conf first inspect the console setting and only if
    that too is unset fall back to /bin/sh
  • When falling back to the console TTY or /bin/sh, finit now marks
    this fallback as console. Should improve usability in some use cases.

Fixes

  • Revert "Use vfork() instead of fork() before exec()" from v1.11. It
    turned out to not work so well after all. For instance, launching
    TTYs in a background process completely blocked inetd services from
    even starting up listening sockets ... proper fork seems to work fine
    though. This is the casue for yanking the [1.11] release, below.
  • Trap segfaults caused by external plugins/callbacks in a sub-process.
    This prevents a single programming mistake in by a 3rd party developer
    from taking down the entire system.
  • Fix Coverity CID 56281: dlopen() resource leak by storing the pointer.
    For the time being we do not support unloading plugins.
  • Set hostname early, so bootstrap processes like syslog can use it.
  • Only restart lost daemons when recovering from a SIGSTOP/norespawn.
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