The init process is the parent of all other processes. This package provides a Python script as a rather minimal implementation. It takes a command as argument and spawns a sub process. Then it waits for child processes, propagates signals to them, and reaps those that are terminated. If the last child process is gone, it terminates itself.
Normally, the init process is provided by the operation system, in packages like systemd or sysvinit. The tiny-init package is useful in environments that do not have a native init process, such as docker containers.
Python:
- Python 3.6 or newer.
Required library packages:
- setuptools
- psutil >= 2.0
Optional library packages:
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This package is used to extract some metadata such as the version number out of git, the version control system. All releases embed that metadata in the distribution. So this package is only needed to build out of the plain development source tree as cloned from GitHub, but not to build a release distribution.
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