[ale] systemd talk from July has slide deck online now

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 12:19:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] systemd talk from July has slide deck online now

> Any chance of your slapping a free software license on your version of
> init that you wrote in C? It may not be the init system of our dreams,
> but it seems to me that every init system I try, I learn a lot. And the
> simpler the init system, the more true this is.

It was a proprietary version I wrote back in 2001. Still in use on the older devices. It manages TTYs, reaps children, 
executes a single rc script at boot which starts all programs, reads not from /etc/inittab but from a shared memory structure in ram with config. It also has no concept of run levels. None needed. 

PID 1 is a very simple concept and can be written for fun. The busybox version just works. Instead of it reading shared memory for config it will read /etc/inittab. That file is built or modded by rcS at boot and then busybox init will re-read it. This is primarily to disable or enable a modem or getty on serial port. This device also has not concept of run levels. None needed. 
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