GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor
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tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitro

Nitro is a tiny process supervisor that also can be used as pid 1 on Linux.

There are four main applications it is designed for:

  • As init for a Linux machine for embedded, desktop or server purposes
  • As init for a Linux initramfs
  • As init for a Linux container (Docker/Podman/LXC/Kubernetes)
  • As unprivileged supervision daemon on POSIX systems

Nitro is configured by a directory of scripts, defaulting to /etc/nitro (or the first command line argument).

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Looks promising. This bullet point in particular caught my eye:

    • Efficient event-driven, polling free operation.

    I wonder if this implies a service dependency graph, which IMHO is the most valuable thing about systemd’s design. I would welcome a small, noninvasive init system with that feature.