[systemd-devel] Early review request: socket activation bridge

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 08.10.13 13:12, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:07:27AM -0700, David Strauss wrote:
> > I've attached the initial implementation -- not yet ready to merge --
> > for an event-oriented socket activation bridge. It performs well under
> > load. I haven't tied up all potential leaks yet, but the normal
> > execution paths seem to be clean. I also need to use proper shell
> > option management.
> Hi David,
> 
> how do you intend target service to be started? I understand that the
> intended use case case is for non-socket-activatable services, so they
> should be started synchronously in the background. In case of local
> services normal systemd management (over dbus) would work. In case of
> remote systems, maybe too, if dbus over the network was properly
> authorized. Do you havy any plans here?

For local systems it should be sufficient to simply invoke the backend
service as dependency of the proxy instance. i.e. not need to involve
D-Bus just activate the backend service at the same time as the socket
activated proxy service. Or am I missing something?

Lennart

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