Kay Sievers

Managing device nodes in /dev on Linux. Udev is now part of the systemd project.

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups ... [More] , supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. [Less]

Example skeleton library demonstrating how Linux kernel developers should write shared libraries.