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Joachim Wiberg e8391864d7 conf: read /run/finit/system before /lib/finit/system
Stanzas in /lib/finit/system cannot use if:keventd, or any other
built-in service: if: is evaluated at parse time, and the generated
.conf files for built-ins were read after the system directory, so the
referenced service did not exist yet and the stanza was dropped.

The late position was deliberate: it kept bundled services from starting
before udev (5d703fd3).  The motivating case was dbus, which has since
moved to a build-time 20-dbus.conf (2e0b1d6f), and the built-ins that
remain want the early slot: watchdogd should start as soon as possible,
keventd is the device manager, and runparts is gated on int/bootstrap so
its position never mattered.

Reading /run/finit/system first also puts the override chain in its
natural order: built-in/generated defaults, then bundled (read-only)
system files in /lib, then the administrator (override) .conf file in
/etc/finit.d, always read last.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-08-17 19:04:52 +02:00
Joachim Wiberg a814e85356 doc: complete and cross-link the D-Bus documentation
dbus.md was orphaned: not in dist_docs_DATA, not linked from the
user guide.  Wire it into the doc dist and link it from the index
features list, features.md, initctl.md, and plugins.md, where the
dbus.so plugin entry now disambiguates the external system bus from
the built-in org.finit API.

Document the 64-peer cap, the supported AddMatch keys, the busconfig
policy file, the legacy-parity edge semantics with the deliberate
SetRunlevel InvalidArgs divergence, the reload-signal behavior of
Service1.Reload, and the reboot family timeout.  Refresh the stale
initctl.md usage paste, add monitor and the D-Bus transport to
initctl(8), add /run/finit/bus to the filesystem layout, and flatten
the ChangeLog D-Bus entry to house style.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-08-16 22:03:41 +02:00
Joachim Wiberg c584795202 doc: fix back-references and stale claims left by the conversion
Reference sections kept pointing at the line-based format they no longer
document.  `sysv` and `task` sent the reader to Services for "<COND>",
the cgroups chapter opened by listing three legacy directives and then
explained further down that only two of them exist here, and the logging
chapter still gave "log:prio:facility.level,tag:ident" as the full
syntax.

Some claims were wrong independent of the format:

  - a sysv is a supervised daemon, grouped with service in
    SVC_TYPE_DAEMON, not a variation on task
  - restart-max has no upper bound of 255, or any other
  - the built-in rescue fallback runs in 12345789, not 12345
  - conditional loading quotes system/10-hotplug.conf, not
    system/hotplug.conf
  - the key spells conflicts, not conflict
  - the built-in getty no longer wants TERM last, it is a key

`if` takes either a service name or, in angle brackets, a condition,
decided in svc_ifthen().  Only the examples showed this, so it is now
said.

Terminology follows the split index.md already draws: a block is the new
format, a stanza the line-based one.

src/rescue.conf was still line-based, missed because it sits in src/
rather than system/ or contrib/.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 15:23:35 +02:00
Joachim Wiberg 00794d41bc doc: convert the remaining legacy syntax
The block conversion changed the bodies of the reference sections but
left every "**Syntax:**" header spelling the line-based format, so each
page opened by teaching the format it then stopped using.  Six files
were missed entirely: runparts, files, capabilities, requirements,
runlevels, and switchroot.

runparts had no block spelling written down anywhere, though the parser
has read `runparts`, `runparts-progress`, and `runparts-sysv` all along.

tty gains a table per variant.  Its three syntax lines carried nine
positional fields between them, which no longer describes anything the
parser accepts.

Fixes #148

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2026-07-30 15:23:13 +02:00
Joachim Wiberg 85baafe99c doc: update links to new project home and add release badge
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2025-12-15 22:37:08 +01:00
Joachim Wiberg d77773d8ee doc: massive refactor and simplification to migrate to mkdocs
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
2025-07-09 11:50:38 +02:00