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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Joachim Wiberg committed 2026-08-13 09:28:14 +02:00
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@@ -780,6 +780,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
dbg("Starting initctl API responder ...");
api_init(&loop);
#ifdef HAVE_DBUS
dbg("Starting D-Bus listener ...");
dbus_init(&loop);
#endif
dbg("Starting service interval monitor ...");
service_init(&loop);