The release of the classic init system SysVinit 3.09 has been published, which was widely used in Linux distributions in the days before systemd and upstart, and now continues to be used in distributions such as Devuan, Debian GNU/Hurd and antiX. The versions of the insserv and startpar utilities used in conjunction with sysvinit have not changed. The insserv utility is designed to organize the boot process, taking into account dependencies between init scripts, and startpar is used to ensure the parallel launch of several scripts during the system boot process.
In the new release of SysVinit:
- Implemented support for building on Linux distributions that use the standard C library Musl instead of Glibc. Among other things, problems with using the hdownload handler on Musl-based systems have been resolved.
- The ability to send messages to the firmware during a reboot on systems with the Linux kernel has been added to the reboot command. The administrator can use this feature, for example, to request a download from another partition. The message is specified by specifying the β-mβ flag.
- Improved operation of the clean directive in Makefile.
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