[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2] rpcbind: add support for systemd socket activation

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 07.12.11 16:18, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> Making rpcbind sockect activated will greatly simplify
> its integration in systemd systems. In essence, other services
> may now assume that rpcbind is always available, even during very
> early boot. This means that we no longer need to worry about any
> ordering dependencies.
> 
> This is based on a patch originally posted by Lennart Poettering:
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/33774>.
> 
> That patch was not merged due to the lack of a shared library and
> as systemd was seen to be too Fedora specific.
> 
> Systemd now provides a shared library, and it is shipped by defalt in
> OpenSUSE in addition to Fedora, and it is available in Debain, Gentoo,
> Arch, and others.
> 
> This version of the patch has three changes from the original:
> 
>  * It uses the shared library.
>  * It comes with unit files.
>  * It is rebased on top of master.
> 
> Please review the patch with "git show -b" or otherwise ignoring the
> whitespace changes, or it will be extremely difficult to read.

Looks good to me! Thanks for looking into this again!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.