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Joachim Wiberg 0a269f3298 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>
2026-08-13 09:28:14 +02:00

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/* libink — D-Bus body marshalling (writer side).
*
* Copyright (c) 2026 Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
*/
#ifndef LIBINK_MARSHAL_H_
#define LIBINK_MARSHAL_H_
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
/* struct link_writer is defined in ink.h (public). Field layout is
* "opaque" per the public contract; this file's helpers manipulate
* the fields directly. */
#include "link.h"
void __w_init (struct link_writer *w, uint8_t *buf, size_t cap);
ssize_t __w_finish(struct link_writer *w);
void __w_byte (struct link_writer *w, uint8_t v);
void __w_bool (struct link_writer *w, int v);
void __w_u32 (struct link_writer *w, uint32_t v);
void __w_string (struct link_writer *w, const char *s); /* "s" */
void __w_path (struct link_writer *w, const char *s); /* "o" */
void __w_sig (struct link_writer *w, const char *s); /* "g" */
/* element_sig_first_char drives the alignment padding inserted
* between the array length prefix and the first element. */
void __w_array_begin (struct link_writer *w, char element_sig_first_char);
void __w_array_end (struct link_writer *w);
void __w_struct_begin(struct link_writer *w);
void __w_struct_end (struct link_writer *w);
/* ---- reader ----
*
* Reads from a message body pointer + length, advancing a cursor.
* struct link_reader is defined in link.h (public, opaque); the
* helpers here manipulate the fields directly. */
void __r_init (struct link_reader *r, const uint8_t *body, size_t len);
int __r_byte (struct link_reader *r, uint8_t *out);
int __r_bool (struct link_reader *r, int *out);
int __r_u32 (struct link_reader *r, uint32_t *out);
int __r_string(struct link_reader *r, const char **out); /* "s" */
int __r_path (struct link_reader *r, const char **out); /* "o" */
int __r_done (const struct link_reader *r);
#endif /* LIBINK_MARSHAL_H_ */