Re: Init system in Lua

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 17 November 2011 20:20, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So we (Alpine Linux) are playing with the idea of having an init
> system with lua for Linux. The idea is that instead of writing start
> up scripts in shell you write them in lua. I think this makes much
> sense because:
> * you avoid many forks = speed up
> * you can have scripts instead of compiled C stuff
> * you have a nice language which gives you arrays/hash tables etc for
> a low price (half size of bash)
> * lots smaller than glib - you can have a very small base system
>
> This means that if we want have the possibility to have /usr on
> separate partition we must move Lua out from /usr.
>
> This is easily done with /usr/bin/lua and /usr/lib/liblua*. My
> question now is, what about pluggable modules? /usr/lib/lua can move
> to /lib/lua but what about /usr/share/lua? I don't like the idea of
> moving it to /share/lua. Suggestions?
>
> Since this means we will replace lots of shell scripts with lua, are
> there any lua modules for typical shell things? like mv, cp, ps, kill
> etc.
>
> Does anyone know similar projects? (bsdlua is one)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Natanael Copa
>
>

See the recent "Lua-friendly OSes" thread
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-10/msg00820.html