libink: a brokerless D-Bus implementation for Finit

Finit had no way to answer the question every service manager gets
asked: what is running, and change it.  D-Bus is how the rest of
userspace asks, but linking libdbus, sd-bus or GIO into PID 1 buys a
dependency, an allocator and a main loop we do not control.

So libink: the wire format, an object tree, and a bus of Finit's own
at /run/finit/bus, gated like INIT_SOCKET.  It speaks the standard
org.freedesktop.DBus, .Peer, .Introspectable interfaces, and Finit's
own Manager1, Service1 and Cond1 on top.  Methods that change
something are marked privileged and answered only for a caller the
kernel vouched for, via SO_PEERCRED.

Server and client both, since initctl is the first thing that needs
to talk to it, and its Start/Stop/Restart/Reload now go over the bus
rather than the legacy socket.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
SUBDIRS = man plugins src system tmpfiles.d
# libink must precede src in SUBDIRS because finit links against
# libink at build time. Automake recurses subdirs strictly in
# declaration order, so the typical "explicit dependency" pattern
# (foo: bar) doesn't help here — ordering is the only thing that
# does. libsystemd is consumed by test/serv only, so its position
# after src is fine.
SUBDIRS = man plugins
if DBUS
SUBDIRS += libink
endif
SUBDIRS += src system tmpfiles.d
dist_doc_DATA = README.md LICENSE contrib/finit.conf
if CONTRIB