Old event system has been replaced with a more generic condition
concept. The idea is that finit plugins may provide arbitrary
conditions that services may specify as dependencies that they require
to run.
In order to accomodate this, the service management has been
redesigned to use a state machine.
This commit adds support for event based services to Finit. Along with
the previously added support for multiple instances of the same process,
the feature scope for Finit v2.0 has been reached!
As of now a service can be declared in /etc/finit.conf or /etc/finit.d/
like this:
service :1 [2345] <!IFUP:eth0,GW> /sbin/dropbear -R -F -p 22 -- SSH daemon
Here the first instance `:1` of dropbear is declared to run in runlevels
2-5, but only if eth0 `IFUP:eth0` is up and a gateway `GW` is set. When
the configuration changes, a new gateway is set, or somehow a new `IFUP`
event for eth0 is received, then dropbear is not SIGHUP'ed, but instead
stop-started `<!>`. The latter trick applies to all services, even
those that do not define any events.
Currently inetd services are not supported for event based starting, but
it could easily be added. Likely scenario is to deny incoming requests
on, e.g., eth0 if there is no gateway.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
Joachim Nilsson