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摘自《Android系统原理及开发要点详解》
Android启动脚本init.rc
在 Android中使用启动脚本init.rc,可以在系统的初始化过程中进行一些简单的初始化操作。这个脚本被直接安装到目标系统的根文件系统中，被 init可执行程序解析。 init.rc是在init启动后被执行的启动脚本，其语法主要包含了以下内容：
Commands：命令Actions： 动作Triggers:触发条件Services：服务Options： 选项Propertise：属性
(1) Commands是一些基本的操作，例如： mkdir /sdcard 0000 system system mkdir /system mkdir /data 0771 system system mkdir /cache 0770 system cache mkdir /config 0500 root root mkdir /sqlite_stmt_journals 01777 root root mount tmpfs tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals size=4m这些命令在init可执行程序中被解析，然后调用相关的函数来实现。
(2) Actions(动作)表示一系列的命令，通常在Triggers（触发条件）中调用，动作和触发条件的形式为： on <trigger> <command> <command> <command>动作的使用示例如下： on init export PATH /sbin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin mkdir /systeminit表示一个触发条件，这个触发事件发生后，进行设置环境变量和建立目录的操作称为一个“动作”
(3) Services（服务）通常表示启动一个可执行程序，Options（选项）是服务的附加内容，用于配合服务使用。
service vold /system/bin/vold socket vold stream 0660 root mount
service bootsound /system/bin/playmp3 user media group audio oneshotvold和bootsound分别是两个服务的名称，/system/bin/vold和/system /bin/playmp3分别是他们所对应的可执行程序。socket、user、group、oneshot就是配合服务使用的选项。其中oneshot选项表示该服务只启动一次，而如果没有oneshot选项，这个可执行程序会一直存在--如果可执行程序被杀死，则会重新启动。
(4) Properties（属性）是系统中使用的一些值，可以进行设置和读取。
setprop ro.FOREGROUND_APP_MEM 1536 setprop ro.VISIBLE_APP_MEM 2048 on property:ro.kernel.qemu=1 start adbdsetprop 用于设置属性，on property可以用于判断属性，这里的属性在整个Android系统运行中都是一致的。
init脚本的关键字可以参考init进程的system/core/init/keyword.h文件。init.rc的使用方法，可以参考说明文件system/core/init/readme.txt
如果想要修改启动过程只需要修改init.c（system/core/init）或者init.rc里的内容即可.附录：system/core/init/readme.txt
Android Init Language---------------------
The Android Init Language consists of four broad classes of statements,which are Actions, Commands, Services, and Options.
All of these are line-oriented, consisting of tokens separated bywhitespace. The c-style backslash escapes may be used to insertwhitespace into a token. Double quotes may also be used to preventwhitespace from breaking text into multiple tokens. The backslash,when it is the last character on a line, may be used for line-folding.
Lines which start with a # (leading whitespace allowed) are comments.
Actions and Services implicitly declare a new section. All commandsor options belong to the section most recently declared. Commandsor options before the first section are ignored.
Actions and Services have unique names. If a second Action or Serviceis declared with the same name as an existing one, it is ignored asan error. (??? should we override instead)
Actions-------Actions are named sequences of commands. Actions have a trigger whichis used to determine when the action should occur. When an eventoccurs which matches an action's trigger, that action is added tothe tail of a to-be-executed queue (unless it is already on thequeue).
Each action in the queue is dequeued in sequence and each command inthat action is executed in sequence. Init handles other activities(device creation/destruction, property setting, process restarting)"between" the execution of the commands in activities.
Actions take the form of:
on <trigger> <command> <command> <command>
Services--------Services are programs which init launches and (optionally) restartswhen they exit. Services take the form of:
service <name> <pathname> [ <argument> ]* <option> <option> ...
Options-------Options are modifiers to services. They affect how and when initruns the service.
critical This is a device-critical service. If it exits more than four times in four minutes, the device will reboot into recovery mode.
disabled This service will not automatically start with its class. It must be explicitly started by name.
setenv <name> <value> Set the environment variable <name> to <value> in the launched process.
socket <name> <type> <perm> [ <user> [ <group> ] ] Create a unix domain socket named /dev/socket/<name> and pass its fd to the launched process. <type> must be "dgram" or "stream". User and group default to 0.
user <username> Change to username before exec'ing this service. Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody) Currently, if your process requires linux capabilities then you cannot use this command. You must instead request the capabilities in-process while still root, and then drop to your desired uid.
group <groupname> [ <groupname> ]* Change to groupname before exec'ing this service. Additional groupnames beyond the (required) first one are used to set the supplemental groups of the process (via setgroups()). Currently defaults to root. (??? probably should default to nobody)
oneshot Do not restart the service when it exits.
class <name> Specify a class name for the service. All services in a named class may be started or stopped together. A service is in the class "default" if one is not specified via the class option.
onrestart Execute a Command (see below) when service restarts.
Triggers-------- Triggers are strings which can be used to match certain kinds of events and used to cause an action to occur.
boot This is the first trigger that will occur when init starts (after /init.conf is loaded)
<name>=<value> Triggers of this form occur when the property <name> is set to the specific value <value>.
device-added-<path>device-removed-<path> Triggers of these forms occur when a device node is added or removed.
service-exited-<name> Triggers of this form occur when the specified service exits.
Commands--------
exec <path> [ <argument> ]* Fork and execute a program (<path>). This will block until the program completes execution. It is best to avoid exec as unlike the builtin commands, it runs the risk of getting init "stuck". (??? maybe there should be a timeout?)
export <name> <value> Set the environment variable <name> equal to <value> in the global environment (which will be inherited by all processes started after this command is executed)
ifup <interface> Bring the network interface <interface> online.
import <filename> Parse an init config file, extending the current configuration.
hostname <name> Set the host name.
chdir <directory> Change working directory.
chmod <octal-mode> <path> Change file access permissions.
chown <owner> <group> <path> Change file owner and group.
chroot <directory>Change process root directory.
class_start <serviceclass> Start all services of the specified class if they are not already running.
class_stop <serviceclass> Stop all services of the specified class if they are currently running.
domainname <name> Set the domain name.
insmod <path> Install the module at <path>
mkdir <path> [mode] [owner] [group] Create a directory at <path>, optionally with the given mode, owner, and group. If not provided, the directory is created with permissions 755 and owned by the root user and root group.
mount <type> <device> <dir> [ <mountoption> ]* Attempt to mount the named device at the directory <dir> <device> may be of the form mtd@name to specify a mtd block device by name. <mountoption>s include "ro", "rw", "remount", "noatime", ...
setkey TBD
setprop <name> <value> Set system property <name> to <value>.
setrlimit <resource> <cur> <max> Set the rlimit for a resource.
start <service> Start a service running if it is not already running.
stop <service> Stop a service from running if it is currently running.
symlink <target> <path> Create a symbolic link at <path> with the value <target>
sysclktz <mins_west_of_gmt> Set the system clock base (0 if system clock ticks in GMT)
trigger <event> Trigger an event. Used to queue an action from another action.
write <path> <string> [ <string> ]* Open the file at <path> and write one or more strings to it with write(2)
Properties----------Init updates some system properties to provide some insight intowhat it's doing:
init.action Equal to the name of the action currently being executed or "" if none
init.command Equal to the command being executed or "" if none.
init.svc.<name> State of a named service ("stopped", "running", "restarting")
Example init.conf-----------------
# not complete -- just providing some examples of usage#on boot export PATH /sbin:/system/sbin:/system/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /system/lib
mkdir /dev mkdir /proc mkdir /sys
mount tmpfs tmpfs /dev mkdir /dev/pts mkdir /dev/socket mount devpts devpts /dev/pts mount proc proc /proc mount sysfs sysfs /sys
write /proc/cpu/alignment 4
ifup lo
hostname localhost domainname localhost
mount yaffs2 mtd@system /system mount yaffs2 mtd@userdata /data
import /system/etc/init.conf
class_start default
service adbd /sbin/adbd user adb group adb
service usbd /system/bin/usbd -r user usbd group usbd socket usbd 666
service zygote /system/bin/app_process -Xzygote /system/bin --zygote socket zygote 666
service runtime /system/bin/runtime user system group system
on device-added-/dev/compass start akmd
on device-removed-/dev/compass stop akmd
service akmd /sbin/akmd disabled user akmd group akmd
Debugging notes---------------By default, programs executed by init will drop stdout and stderr into/dev/null. To help with debugging, you can execute your program via theAndoird program logwrapper. This will redirect stdout/stderr into theAndroid logging system (accessed via logcat).
For exampleservice akmd /system/bin/logwrapper /sbin/akmd
