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Joachim Wiberg
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A call is parked until the resolver says who sent it, and an outbound call sits in a pending slot until its reply lands. Neither had a way to give up. A broker that answers GetConnectionUnixUser slowly, or not at all, leaves the caller waiting forever and keeps the slot; four of those and every later privileged call is refused with LimitsExceeded until Finit restarts. libink cannot time itself out, it has no event loop, so the deadline is the embedder's to keep. One sweep per connection covers both, and the ordering between them stays in the library rather than in each embedder: calls first, because one timing out usually resolves the park it was made for, and AccessDenied tells that caller more than a bare timeout. The sweep is armed when a resolve is deferred and stops rearming as soon as nothing is outstanding, so a system that never meets a broker never wakes up for it. Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Finit is a fast, simple alternative to SysV init and systemd, designed for small and embedded Linux systems. It can also run on desktop and server systems, like finix.
Reverse engineered from the EeePC fastinit
"gaps filled with frog DNA …"
— Claudio Matsuoka
For detailed information, explore our extensive documentation
📚 http://finit-project.github.io
For working examples, see the 🚀 contrib/ section or these tutorials:
- 🛠️ Buildroot embedded Linux,
- 📦 Debian GNU/Linux,
- ⛰️ Alpine Linux, and
- 🌌 Void Linux
Note
Finit can run on various Linux distributions, but the bundled install scripts are examples only. They have been tested on amd64 (x86_64) systems with standard configurations.
For embedded systems, see these Buildroot-based examples: myLinux, Infix, or br2-finit-demo.