Get the utmp (inittab) id, may not be nul terminated if maximum length!

Get the utmp (inittab) line, may not be nul terminated if maximum length!

Retrieve watcher from queue handle:

Get a line from the current file, without falling back to another file

Check if console queue is empty (possibly due to console already having been assigned to the only queueing service)

Check if service is, fundamentally, stopped. It is either in the stopped state, or starting but waiting for dependents, i.e. it can be trivially set t

Issue a "load service" command (LOADSERVICE), without waiting for a response. Returns 1 on failure (with error logged), 0 on success.

Load a service: issue load command, wait for reply. Return true on success, display error message and return false on failure. socknum - the socket f

Log the boot time to the wtmp database (or equivalent).

Log a multi-part message beginning

Mark overflow occurred. Call this only when the buffer is full. The marker is put after the most recent newline in the buffer, if possible, so that wh

Process a command line argument (and possibly its follow-up value) Returns -1 for clean exit required, 0 for success, 1 for error exit required

Process a dependency directory - filenames contained within correspond to service names which are loaded and added as a dependency of the given type.

Process rearm return from an fd_watcher, including the primary watcher of a bidi_fd_watcher. Depending on the rearm value, we re-arm, remove, or disar

Process rearm option from the primary watcher in bidi_fd_watcher

Process re-arm for the secondary (output) watcher in a Bi-direction Fd watcher.

Read a symbolic link into a vector<char> (i.e. a string wrapped as a vector). The string will have a terminating nul character. Returns: A pair of {su

Note, called with lock held:

Throws bad_alloc on reservation failure

Resolve variables from an environment

Callback when the root filesystem is read/write:

send a signal to this process, if it is still running, in a race-free manner. return is as for POSIX kill(); return is -1 with errno=ESRCH if process

Set the service that this one "chains" to. When this service completes, the named service is started.

Set the command to run this service (executable and arguments, nul separated). The command_parts_p vector must contain pointers to each part.

Set the name of the environment variable that will be set to the notification fd number when the service process is run