The shell is now spawned as a boot service

src/core/mainloop.nim

@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ proc mainLoop*(logger: Logger) =
     logger.info("System initialization complete, going idle")
     logger.switchToFile()
     try:
-        discard execShellCmd("/bin/login -f root")  # TODO: Use a service
         while true:
             sleepSeconds(30)
     except:

src/core/services.nim

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ proc startService(logger: Logger, service: Service) =
         var arguments = split.words
         let progName = arguments[0]
         arguments = arguments[1..^1]
-        process = startProcess(progName, workingDir=service.workDir, args=arguments)
+        process = startProcess(progName, workingDir=service.workDir, args=arguments, options={poParentStreams})
         if service.supervised and service.kind != Oneshot:
             var pid = posix.fork()
             if pid == 0:

src/main.nim

@@ -59,10 +59,16 @@ proc addStuff =
                           exec="/bin/true", supervised=true, restart=Always,
                           restartDelay=5, runlevel=Boot, workDir="/", kind=Simple,
                           depends=(@[newDependency(Other, errorer)]), provides=(@[]))
+    var shell = newService(name="login", description="A simple login shell", kind=Simple,
+                           getCurrentDir(), runlevel=Boot, exec="/bin/login -f root",
+                           supervised=true, restart=Always, restartDelay=0, depends=(@[]), provides=(@[])
+                           )
     addService(errorer)
     addService(echoer)
     addService(exiter)
     addService(test)
+    addService(shell)
+
 
 
 proc main(logger: Logger, mountDisks: bool = true, fstab: string = "/etc/fstab", setHostname: bool = true, workerCount: int = 1) =