feasibility of not depending on the systemctl about systemctl HOT 4 CLOSED

Yes there are 2 major rust crates, dbus-rs binds to standard libdbus, and zbus implements a pure rust solution.
The crate I linked auto-generates zbus proxies from the source code to systemd's dbus interface.

I've been using zbus and zbus-systemd for my systemctl alternative sys and it is going pretty smoothly.

If you are interested in systemd's dbus interface the documentation is here, and you can use gnome d-feet to poke around on a running system. You probably will see alot of interfaces. Lots of modern linux is plumbed together with dbus, for better or worse.

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Actually, this might be even simpler than parsing systemctl terminal output

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/dbus/

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Never-mind, this already exists https://github.com/lucab/zbus_systemd

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Hello @blueforesticarus

Never-mind, this already exists https://github.com/lucab/zbus_systemd

I was not aware of "dbus", that can also be a solution to the topic of this crate. We'll see, maybe it will become pointless a near future. "dbus" would probably a more stable / standard approach.
I checked it out when you open this thread, other solutions exist too like this one

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